<p>I am more than likely going to be a Freshman at BC this upcoming fall. I want to intern every summer in between each class year because I heard work experience is a huge factor when applying to a top grad business school. I was just wondering since I’m so new to the college life, how would I go about looking for an internship this fall? Like what, if any, qualifications are there to getting an internship and how competitive are they to get. I live 5 mins from NYC, so I’d love to get one in the city if it is at all possible? Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>I’m such an idiot…I completely forgot to specify that the type of internship I’d like is in finance and I’m in CSOM.</p>
<p>Hey i don’t have an answer to your question but I am in the same boat as you. I don’t know how to start off. Everything is the same for me as you except that I’m looking for an internship in medicine</p>
<p>I don’t know much about medical internships, but I assume the following advice would be equally applicable. </p>
<p>When you get to campus, set up a meeting with an adviser at the career center. Tell them you want to intern in NYC in finance, and they will begin to help you out. It’s harder to get an internship after only one year of school, but it’s definitely possible and they will be able to help you make it happen. They probably know where CSOMers have gotten good internships in that field after only one year. </p>
<p>You will also begin receiving e-mails about on-campus recruiting. A ton of companies, including several Wall Street types, come to BC to recruit students for internships. Go to these. </p>
<p>Lastly, there’s the alumni career database which you will be able to access on agora once BC has processed you as an actual student. You can search for finance in NYC, and a giant list of alumni who have volunteered to help current students will come up. You can contact these people, and the career center will help you go about approaching them for the first time.</p>
<p>BC2012guy gave you some good input. I’ll add one more.</p>
<p>Our son is in CSOM. On the Friday of Parent’s Weekend during his first year, the CSOM office held a “meet & greet” breakfast session. One of the parents asked your same question.</p>
<p>The reply from one of the deans was to NOT worry about CSOM-related internships until at least your junior year. She said because freshman and sophomores haven’t taken enough core courses yet to have meaningful skills, when they intern in business related jobs, the companies tend to use them for meaningless work - resulting in an unfulfilling unsatisfying summer.</p>
<p>Her recommendation for the first two summers was to continue doing what you had been doing and enjoy your summer (camp counselors, local jobs, travel, etc).</p>
<p>That’s spot on. The truth is that you won’t no nearly enough to even contemplate an internship after your freshman year. This reality is across the board no matter which school you go to. For example, I am in CSOM, and I just started my first “real” business class this spring semester. I only did this because I knew I wanted to concentrate in accounting and I wanted to “get the ball rolling” so to speak by taking my first accounting course early. As for my friends that are also CSOM frosh, none that I know of have even taken anything beyond the mandatory Portico (business ethics) class, stats, and computers in management (Intro to IS). </p>
<p>For the summer, I am doing sales work with my town’s MLB team. In no way am I trying to boast, but my summer plans far surpass many of my friends in CSOM (no need to even mention my A&S buds). Nevertheless, its SALES, not even anything technically business. </p>
<p>I would advise that if you are certain of your business-discipline interest (finance, accounting, etc) like I was, take classes in your discipline early. I took financial accounting this semester and will be able to start real accounting (FAST I) starting next fall. If you are finance inclined, take ur intro to finance class first semester soph year (even though its recommended to be taken J year). By the end of soph year, you could potentially have your core finance and a handful of finance electives under your belt. At that point, real internships WILL be a possibility. </p>
<p>Two last things. Be alert for business CONFERENCES during your freshman summer. I applied for a Deloitte (accounting) one, and Google has a program for freshman as well. If you are a minority, there are even more freshman summer conferences available. Lastly, BC offers many many on campus research assistant positions and business-inclined opportunities. Marketing and sales positions for the sports teams and The Heights (school newspaper) abound. The key is this: be proactive to opportunities, because they are surely out there.</p>