<p>So I got enough AP credit in high school for 15 college credits and was wondering if it is beneficial to me to take a semester off in college because I can. Obviously I will do an internship during this semester but is it smart to do this and how would it look to grad schools? I guess the other alternative is taking the last semester of college off and working before going to grad school. would it look bad on my transcript if i didnt take a full years worth of classes in my senior year or in the previous alternative in my jubior year?</p>
<p>Internships can mean the world when it comes to applying for jobs so no, it definitely won’t look bad!!</p>
<p>It only looks bad if you do absolutely nothing with your time off. If you resume has a gap on it where you’re just like – basically I sat at home. Besides, most grad schools look more favorably on people who have taken the time to get real-world experience in their field before applying.</p>
<p>I’m graduating in January, working full time, then backpacking through europe. I’m no too interested in internships because I know what I want to do. I don’t want to waste my time giving people tours of a capitol building just to have something on my resume. I’d rather have an awesome two month experience. My advice is to graduate a semester early and do everything you want to do before you have to settle down with a career or go to grad school. If your internship is helpful and interesting, do it. There’s a bunch of scam internship offered in my field. But you have your whole life to be stuck in an office.</p>
<p>for one thing, it depends what type of grad school you are talking about. Law? MBA? PhD?</p>
<p>I’ll be going to law school after but i want to get into a top 10 one</p>
<p>Hmm travel for sure because you’ll be broke by the end of law school.</p>
<p>law school admission is driven primarily by GPA and LSAT score. So internships aren’t all that important for admission. Experience in the legal field is very important for you however, before you embark on an expensive 3-year program. Many lawyers love what they do, but there are plenty that chose law without making sure it was a good fit for them. It would be a good idea to try to get some experience inside a law firm just about any way you can, even if it is just as a clerk of some sort. Being immersed in it for 40 hours a week will soon let you know if its right for you, and you’ll have plenty of opportunities to talk to lawyers about their work especially if you let them know you’re thinking about the field.</p>
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<p>This, pretty much. Also, it doesn’t hurt to take time off before starting law school if that’s what you wanna do <b> as long as you’re doing something </b>. So, taking the internship won’t be a bad or good thing from an admissions stand point, but if you want to try something else out besides law, I suggest doing that before you start law school because law will become your life for quite a few years. At least from my understanding.</p>