<p>Is there any reason why a high school student can't apply for two internships at the same time, in hopes of getting one? Or is that unethical?</p>
<p>IMO...it would be a reasonable course of action to improve ones chances of an internship. G'Luck!</p>
<p>It is just like any job search. I do not see any unethical issues here.</p>
<p>Thank you. She's had a couple of nice things cross her path and we didn't want to mess anything up by doing the wrong thing.</p>
<p>I applied to two, got into 2, and I'm going to do 2. One is like 30 hours a week and the other is whenever I want (part time, but only like <5 hours a week). I get paid a $2000 stipend for the first one. I get community service hours for the second one.
I'm able to do both because they are literally 5 minutes from each other (same univ, different buildings/labs).</p>
<p>You never know which (if any) of the internships you'll get accepted to, so applying to 2 at the same time is prudent. In fact, only applying to one would seem like tempting the fates.</p>
<p>LOL, my d's biggest problem last spring was that she had applied for and been offered 2 internships for different organizations, and then had to agonize over which one to accept.</p>
<p>Really, if anything, I would say that a prospective intern should be applying to many internships, just like a regular job-hunter would. I didn't understand this freshman year when I was looking for research jobs. I only applied for five or six at labs on campus, plus one elsewhere. I thought that was so many! Never mind that I was a freshman competing against older students with a lot more skills and experience. I didn't get anything.</p>
<p>it took S about 30-40 applications,4 different interviews to land one internship
unless you know someone, its just like a regular job search</p>