<p>I hope that it's right to put this here, because I want to talk about the one I did rather than to search for one.</p>
<p>My question is:
Are the internships where I get paid more impressive?</p>
<p>I can understand that if I pay to get an internship, it only means that my family is rich and won't help much, but what if I obtained the chance throughly by myself and even got paid for the job?</p>
<p>Thank you for your opinions!</p>
<p>For more details, I did an internship this summer for a consulting company and got 400 dollars. And one of my recommendations will come from the supervisor, who was really satisfied with my work(in fact, he raised the payment, at first it was to be 200 dollars.)
Cannot change anything about it now. I just want to know whether it will make a slight difference in the application.</p>
<p>I second this question. I want to know about it too. </p>
<p>I think you can just mention the words “fully payed internship” in your SOP so that they understand that it was not an payed intern. </p>
<p>I went for an internship in Munich (I am from India) and i was payed 1000 euros a month for 3 months. But i didnt get any increment like you or anything, it was 1000 from the beginning :P</p>
<p>Cheers
Adam</p>
<p>Wow, Nradam, I suppose that’s really something! Not every student can get an internship with that payment! 3000 euros in total! You must be really capable!</p>
<p>My opinion only: if your resume came to my desk, I’d say being paid/unpaid makes no difference if you can support the underlying work as of value. Often it’s just luck that one can connect with an org/company that has a internship salary model versus those that only take co-op or unpaid internships. If an unpaid intern can demonstrate the value of the experience, that’d suffice for me as a resume reader.</p>
<p>any other opinions?</p>
<p>Agree with T26T4. Paid vs. unpaid wouldn’t be especially noteworthy. What does matter is the letter of rec: Hopefully, it says something like ‘this is the best intern we’ve ever had.’ Or 'x showed creativity, intelligence and initiative well beyond what we’ve come to expect from interns. For example…"</p>
<p>After that, the money makes no difference at all. And I mention the substance of the rec letters because often supervisors have no idea how to write a college rec letter and how important comparative info can be in helping the adcom to evaluate you vs. your seemingly comparable peers.</p>