<p>Hello, all!
Thinking about my summer plans here.
I would really like to study abroad, though I figure that getting some sort of internship would help me beef up my resume...do you think law schools would prefer one over the other?
Thanks for any advice/suggestions you have!</p>
<p>In terms of college experience, I STRONGLY suggest that you study abroad at least once during your time at school.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s the general consensus…I’m just scared my lack of internship experience may hamper my ability to get into law school (it’s my last summer in college and I plan on going straight into law school…)
I really would rather study abroad though, since I’ll never get the chance to again…and I’ll be working for the rest of my life. And I’ve heard SUCH good things. Gah, stress.</p>
<p>You could get an internship abroad. </p>
<p>Most schools have a club called AIESEC (world’s largest run student organization), whose function is to find student’s opportunities to WORK abroad (not study). From what I heard it’s generally a much more cultural experience than is just studying abroad, and if your school doesn’t have a Local Chapter, look it up on their website and you can always go through a neighboring school.</p>
<p>What year are you in school? I think that this could work. A summer study abroad experience followed by a internship during the school year. I did it.</p>
<p>will–I’m a junior…and yes that would be ideal except there aren’t exactly a plethora of internhip opps where I go to college haha!</p>
<p>ron–I’ll def look into AIESEC…I didn’t know this existed. Thanks!</p>
<p>And thanks to everyone!</p>
<p>Internships (or lack thereof) will not affect your admission to law school, unless you do something totally unique as an intern.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure I completely agree. Especially at a schools like Yale, Stanford, and Northwestern, I’ve seen students (at least looking at applicants from my school the last 3 years from a database of law students who applied from a certain pre-law organization), four to be exact, who had finance related internships on Wall St with prominent BB i-banks (GS, JPM, ML, etc), who all seemed to have done better than expected in admissions. Could have been a coincidence and obviously there are other potential factors, but I would say that an important internship is a lot more valuable than a unique one.</p>
<p>Ibanking experience is definitely a good soft factor both for law school admissions and for interviewing for big firms. It’s not as big as the Rhodes/Marshall, but not as meaningless as xyz club extracurricular and abc school.</p>
<p>Well, seeing as how I have zero interest in spending any amount of my life anywhere near ibanking…Guess that doesn’t apply to me! Good advice for others who may find themselves facing a similar decision though!</p>