In my area there’s a very competitive college. I’ve been meaning to do an internship over the summer but it never happened due to personal issues. I want to do an internship or possibly a research opportunity during the upcoming holidays (thanksgiving break)
My question is, does this look bad? Does it appear like I wanted to heighten my application very last minute? I plan to do RD to private schools so I send in my apps December-January
As a high school student researcher, I’m curious as to what “research” you can do in just a few weeks? Some of my projects took a week at least and many others came with multiple analysis and data I had to gather for my lab professor.
I don’t mean to throw your plan under the bus, but I don’t think you can do research in such a time frame - not anything meaningful anyways. Theres a lot of commitment and time you need to spend and just coming in for a few weeks won’t cut it; if your lab director is content with you just training, observing, and mixing chemicals, then I guess if you want to.
However, if you take out the idea of college admissions (as in, would you still do this if you didn’t have to get into college) and think it’s truly worthwhile, it’s not bad to get an experience out of it.
I am very interested in doing this, taking out the idea of college admissions. I suppose the training aspect would be more plausible… but I’m not sure. Thank you so much.
I don’t think this is a thing. I think you could visit a lab and have an informational interview about research and then that you mention that in an interview or essay.
@CheddarcheeseMN would that be an impressive activity if I do that?
Not really.
I’ll just let it go. Thanks. I’m just worried about college