<p>My son received a letter about the paid experiential learning opportunities at Chicago.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with these? According to the letter, there are over 600 paid experiential opportunities, including various grants and internships. How competitive are they? Any other comments to share?</p>
<p>Im very interested in my S earning some money to offset tuition bills, so the part-time jobs info in the other link was helpful and now Im wondering about these.</p>
<p>I got the same letter, and I have similar questions… bump</p>
<p>Are they talking about Metcalf internships? If so, they’re great opportunities for current students to do something productive over the summer and get paid for it. They’re somewhat competitive, but the general intuition is that if you want one and apply for a few, chances are good that you’ll end up with one at least by second year.</p>
<p>If that’s not it, then I really don’t know what these are.</p>
<p>Thank you, JBV!</p>
<p>Yes, the letter mentions “over 230 paid, full-time summer” Metcalf Fellows internships, as well as:</p>
<p>Journalism Internship
Summer Action Grants
Human Rights Internship
Summer Links (my first reaction to this was, what, a golf program at Chicago? :))
PRISM Research
Summer International Travel</p>
<p>I know the Math Department funds students to do research over the summer as well. I don’t know how competitive it is; all of the math majors I know have done it, but I don’t know all that many math majors.</p>
<p>By the way, I don’t know how much meaningful tuition offset any of these opportunities provide. My wife’s employer sponsors a Metcalf, and one of my kids did one of the paid journalism internships. The pay is certainly enough to defray living expenses during the summer, but not a whole lot more.</p>
<p>The Metcalf fellowships and Summer Links program typically offer a stipend of $4000 for the summer, and with Summer Links you have the option to stay on campus in Max Palevsky dormitory at a reduced rate to avoid paying rent- otherwise students are responsible for finding housing and providing meals for themselves. The pay comes as a stipend check, usually, or may be parsed out over the course of the summer, but is not necessarily a “tuition offset” in the sense that it will be cut as a check to the student and not applied as a deduction to the tuition bill.</p>
<p>Thank you all for these insights; it’s good to know this stuff. At this point, while still waiting on RDs and having not yet visited the campus, Chicago is shaping up to be his first choice. He’ll be going to the overnight program on April 15, which I expect will be very informative for him.</p>
<p>On a related note (to anyone who’s reading this and doesn’t mind me asking; hopefully I’m not hijacking the thread), are these opportunities typically available to international students as well (completely or partially)? </p>
<p>I’ve been through the FROGS website, but quite a lot of the internships and all, except for the most competitive, have US citizenship (or in some cases permanent residency) as a requirement. There was also something on the Physics Department’s website which only accepted US citizens. If it’s not too much trouble, could someone elaborate on the difficulty of finding things to do as an international student?</p>
<p>Once again, sorry if I’m hijacking this.</p>
<p>^Sorry for bumping up this old thread, but if someone could answer the question in the post above mine, that’d be great</p>
<p>I think the FROGS grants are more demanding of US citizenship. Metcalf is a much larger, broader, program and the nationality requirements vary by job, since some are gov work (and almost always require citizenship) but many are private. Some Metcalfs (especially finance) are paid for by the company, other Metcalfs (often gov/non-profit) are paid for by the school. I think that UChicago-funded Metcalfs have less strict nationality requirements than funded ones, because in funded Metcalfs the employer may have to sponsor a visa. </p>
<p>Sorry this answer was so long. It may be a good contact the administrator of the program (Metcalf, FLAG, FROG) and ask them directly, or ask an admissions counselor. ( I’m sure many people here would be interested in seeing their answer!)</p>
<p>If you have a question about a specific sector or internship, I may be more useful, but then again, asking a CAPS/whatever employee is probably your best bet!</p>
<p>Here is a list (this by no means represents every company that has ever hired an international student, but a sample of companies/organizations) of Metcalf opportunities and full time employment for international students, as well as some additional information for international students’ job/experiential learning opportunities. <a href=“Home | CareerAdv”>Home | CareerAdv;
<p>Hope this helps! I am not as familiar with the FROGS program but international students are certainly accepted to a large number of competitive Metcalf internship opportunities.</p>