<p>Examples like Harvard, MIT, and Columbia.</p>
<p>Are programs generally willing to accommodate? It would be so inane if they didn't considering 20% of colleges, including top institutions such as Dartmouth, Caltech, UChicago most UC schools among others operate on the quarter system.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Why would it? There’s a summer quarter, which you can take off like the “average” college student.</p>
<p>^Quarter schools’ summer session is about 3 weeks off from Semester schools’.</p>
<p>yeah some internships (for example, SULI at national labs) start in late May, and quarter system schools don’t get out until early June. I just don’t know how willing institutions are to accommodate. Well the disparity is about 2-3 weeks or so I think.</p>
<p>Sorry, this made me laugh. Why should the schools accommodate?</p>
<p>Have you known a school that will not accommodate?</p>
<p>What do you mean by accommodate? You want them to excuse you from the last month of the quarter?</p>
<p>Not accommodation from your school; accommodation from the institution offering the internship.</p>
<p>Because nobody form MIT, Harvard and Columbia ever gets a summer internship, ever.</p>
<p>Jesus, have you considered that most companies have flexible dates of employment? I mean, do you seriously believe firms would intentionally schedule things such that they’ll arbitrarily exclude the best and brightest of the collegiate system?</p>
<p>^^ You misunderstood me. MIT and Harvard are both on the semester system, but offer internships for college students around the nation during the summer that begin from their school’s start of summer (in May). About 20% of colleges run on the quarter system for which summer begins in June. My question is will institutions like Harvard/MIT accommodate to colleges on the quarter system.</p>
<p>But from the lack of concern from ardent CC’ers and the misinformed attitudes of those who answered, I’m convinced that this question really isn’t going to get answered with any reliable, negative replies, which was, of course, what I was hoping for.</p>
<p>Hi - no there is no issue at all. Almost all firms will accommodate both schedules, most of the time its not even an issue.</p>
<p>seadog, are you sure that MIT’s internship program are open to students attending colleges other than MIT? All of the internship programs run out of the Career Development Center are for MIT students only.</p>
<p>There is a program for minorites (from which I’m excluded, but I just used as an example).</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Department of Biology: Summer Research Internships and College Outreach](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/outreach/summer_research/undergraduates.html]MIT”>http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/outreach/summer_research/undergraduates.html)</p>
<p>I guess it is only for those interested in biology as well. Search around their website. There might be some for other science-related fields.</p>
<p>Thanks slipper…I hope it’s true :)</p>
<p>I had not heard of that program or the equivalent MSRP (for engineering students). Thanks for the link, seadog.</p>