<p>Is the daughter multi-lingual? If not, can the family afford to send the daughter abroad for a year? It may still be possible to get in on a foreign exchange program like Rotary, AFS, or YFU which arrange homestays. The most valuable asset that the daughter can have for a possible UN career would be fluency in a different language, preferably one of the official UN languages - (Arabic,Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish) - and the best way to gain fluency is to live in a country where the language is spoken, preferably in a situation which forces the person to use the language of the host country. There probably aren’t many internships that she could get as a high school grad that would be directly relevant, but she certainly could work now to build up her language skills – and a gap year probably presents an excellent opportunity to do that. </p>