<p>Hi,
I will become a high school junior this upcoming September and I was wondering if interning at a well known real estate agent/developer's company would be beneficial to my college application. I know that my junior year will be one of the most important and busiest years of high school, so I am trying to narrow down the things I am doing to really focus on a select few. </p>
<p>My first choice would be NYU Stern to major in business...but the thing is I want to become either an investment banker or a real estate developer. Would interning at a real estate agent's office and an real estate developer's office benefit me at all when applying to colleges?</p>
<p>Any type of internship will boost your application as it offers a plethora of experience. </p>
<p>I say go fit it. However, if you want to be a real estate developer intern at a development office. There’s different procedures for agents and developers, so pick the developer if you’re more interested in that.</p>
<p>Either way, an internship position is well worth the time.</p>
<p>I can’t agree completely. I don’t think it adds anything more valuable to your college applications than being a dedicated athlete, or in a select music ensemble, or employed for money. It’s something you do outside of classes and homework. It’s clearly more worthwhile than some things you could spend your time on (e.g., television or binge drinking), but not particularly more “valuable” than anything else.</p>
<p>That is, unless it has intrinsic value to you. If you do this internship because you want to explore a career in business, and particularly in real estate development, that’s great. And then tell colleges about it when you apply. But if you do it just to get a leg-up in college admissions, I don’t think it will work.</p>