<p>That’s what I always wanted to do the summers after college & I even applied & got job offers but dad made me come home & work as a summer rec aide & live at home & also part-time salesclerk. I know I made more money living at home, but I had hoped to explore and meet more kids working at summer camp. Glad your child is getting paid to do what he loves! That’s always a great situation and good that the family can afford for him not to earn too much.</p>
<p>HImom whether we can afford for him to do it remains a question, which will partially depend on where he ends up going to school and what kind of financial package he gets. But if he goes to one of his financial safeties, we can :)</p>
<p>We just returned from spending 6 hrs at the college that my D will most likely attend. She interviewed for a scholarship program for girls who will be studying computer science or engineering. They told us that many of their students are now doing internships between their freshman and sophomore year. My daughter has been offered a second paid internship (which will pay $25/hr) at a local university research facility. She is a high school senior. Like mathmom’s son, comp sci majors have the potential to make a good amount of money as paid summer interns. In our case, money really isn’t the issue. Our D feels that the summer internship will be an extremely valuable experience for her. She is looking forward to working with people doing cutting edge research this summer.</p>
<p>CS majors are somewhat of an anomaly in it being relatively easy to find high-paying summer work (often freelance rather than a formalized internship). For the rest of us–if only!</p>
<p>Keilexandra: and OP:</p>
<p>Most of the established publicly traded companies have a well structured summer interns programs. Generally it’s for Junior and Seniors but often open to Sophomore and even Freshmen.</p>
<p>Generally the college career office can help find all such programs. Most companies that visits college campuses for NCG (New College Graduate) recruitment also look for summer interns.</p>
<p>If your child is at a college where either the college career office is not that active or not many companies visits the campus then you can actually go to these companies web sites and apply directly.</p>
<p>^I amend my previous post to include business/finance in the rarefied realm of highly paid, relatively plentiful summer internships. ;)</p>
<p>Then there are REUs, which pay reasonably (though not obscenely) but are difficult to gain acceptance into–and one has to be a serious research-oriented math/science major.</p>
<p>For the OP, whose D is interested in writing, humanities, the arts? I don’t know, the prospects seem slim.</p>