<p>RacinReaver,
"Miami, if your daughter is such a standout student, certainly a professor in her department would have a paid position for her to do research over the summer. "</p>
<p>-It is naive assumption. She was hand picked by one of her profs to be his assistant during academic year - paid job until she graduates. She has non-paid intership in Research Lab again during academic year. She has applied to do research over summer and it still remains to be seen if she gets it. Kids with connections and URMs are ahead of all others, there are very few spots available. D. has plenty of experience both paid and unpaid in research and her GPA=4.0, both of which do not guarantee anything at all and she is very well aware of it. She has no idea what she would be doing otherwise during summer. She does not need to take summer classes either, and that would be expensive in comparison, since summer is not covered by her Merit Scholarships that cover her regular semesters.</p>