<p>What appears better to admissions: a job or an internship? I think that an internship would because it shows interest in a certain field instead of just a job for spending cash. What do you think?</p>
<p>I think that whatever you think is fine. Neither looks better, most of your activities are just proving to cornell that you do something productive with your time. The list of circumstances that could make either a job or an internship "better" than the other could go on and on; in other words, there is no clean advantage.</p>
<p>Unless you can actually significantly aid the school with your ECs (advanced groundbreaking research, sicknasty at a varsity sport, etc.) they just need to be things you care about.</p>
<p>And do you think they're going to evaluate your morals and stuff based on your job? "Oh, he has a job, he's just trying to get cash to go to the movies; lets reject the sucker!" yea right...they're not going to say that.</p>