<p>Does anybody know where a rising junior from New Jersey can get an internship? I can commute to both Philadelphia and New York. (Preferably a business internship, nothing to do with science) Thanks!</p>
<p>I’d ask your GC if you have any kind of education cooperative that places HS kids with businesses. My daughter did an internship at a museum last summer (between her soph and jr years) in Boston thru an organization that worked with local high schools. It was a great internship and convinced her that she does NOT want a degree in museum science.</p>
<p>I tried, they were basically useless.</p>
<p>Ask your teachers if they know of any organzations that’ve taken interns in the past, or if they have any suggestions about where you could look. Ask your parents the same thing. Ask the parents of your friends, the friends of your parents, and any other adults in your life. Doctors, clergy, neighbors. You’re not necessarily asking people to give you a position (though that’d be fine), you want them to suggest someone who could use an eager, polite, hardworking, not-expecting-any-money student. </p>
<p>OK, you tried that, no one’s got nuthin’. 
Time to move on to the cold calls. Think of any organization you’d be interested in working for. Call. Ask if they have any summer internship opportunities for high school students. If they say they are full for this summer, or that you’re too young for this summer, ask when you should call back for next summer. If they say they’re looking for someone with qualification XYZ, take note of that. If you don’t know now how to use Excel/build a website/do basic accounting, spend this summer taking a class or teaching yourself how to do that.</p>