Graduate school without internships?

Graduate School
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I'm currently a junior, and starting to think about graduate schools in public policy. Here's my situation: I work a decent amount during the school year, where I'm heavily involved in a nonprofit organization. During the summers, however, I can't take unpaid internships; they are 100% a financial no-go for me. I need that extra money to help support myself during the school year, etc. Might this "lack of experience" hurt me in the long run? I mean, I work 15+ hours/week with this other organization during the school year, but I usually babysit/waitress/anything-I-can-get-in-this-economy during the summer to make ends meet.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>PS: For what it’s worth, I have a 3.77 at a Top 20 university, but I have yet to take the GREs</p>

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<p>Read this
<a href=“http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
Its about engineering so I don’t know if it might be different for public policy</p>

<p>Internships do not matter at all for grad school (unless you do a research internship)
You would be better off doing research</p>

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<p>Internships still matter. Think about working on designing a new hardware architecture at a company.</p>