<p>What are you incoming freshmen going to be doing this summer?</p>
<p>One of my ideas was to get a summer job as an SAT tutor. I've heard it pays well.</p>
<p>I will be working full time at a major financial institution in Manhattan..</p>
<p>I'm doing an internship at the Ship Systems Engineering Station in Philadelphia (my 3rd year there).</p>
<p>SAT tutoring is a great idea. Maybe I'll do that too.</p>
<p>How do you just become an SAT tutor? Are we allowed to wrok for good ones like kaplan? That sounds liek soomethign good for the summer. I got nothin.. and I dont want to just get a lame summer job, i want somethign that would look good on a resume. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I'm going to Seattle this summer for an internship with Microsoft.</p>
<p>Wait, that's not true. I've actually got nothing planned.</p>
<p>I would just privately tutor a few individual clients in my area and charge a lot (maybe $30 an hour?), not work for a company like kaplan or anything like that.</p>
<p>I'm looking for a job doing anything anywhere... some money is better than none, and the job market here seems rather horrible for high school and college kids.</p>
<p>Yeah, same here - I'll be in Albany, NY this summer, and there's really nothing going on there. No companies hiring interns for the time when I'll be available, and the Apple store said they would hire me if I was 18 or older, which I won't be till September...<em>grumble</em></p>
<p>As for the SAT tutoring, I was considering working for Kaplan, but I don't know if they have jobs available for the summer only. Also, I'm not sure about qualifications. My scores and grades are good enough, but I have no prior tutoring experience. I'm sure they have training courses, but that could take the whole summer.</p>
<p>I suppose I could do it independently, but that would be a lot more difficult. Firstly, people with enough money to get SAT tutoring for their kids are going to want someone good, so they'll go to a professional company like Kaplan first. Secondly, if you work independently it means a lot more work for you. You have to get your hands on curriculum materials, practice tests, etc. Plus, you have to advertise yourself somehow so you get clients. Kaplan would do all that for you.</p>
<p>Also, I forgot to mention I will be doing something this summer: the Global Youth Leadership Conference in DC and New York.</p>
<p>I might work for an orthodontist.</p>
<p>haha, funny how everyone is mentioning working as a kaplan SAT tutor... i just applied a week ago and went for an audition. no call back :( oh well....</p>
<p>I haven't even had interviews anyplace... no place calls back. Too much cheap labor here...</p>
<p>exiledazn: So they could potentially hire high school seniors? Did you have any prior tutoring experience?</p>
<p>thinkdifferent, there is no age requirement... they only want you have a highschool diploma...And no, I never had any tutoring experience.</p>
<p>Sometimes they are very picky about tutors and only let 1 or 2 people pass the audition and sometimes they let everyone who has marginally good public speaking skills into the training... It really just depends on how many people they need. I doubt the training lasts very long... maybe a couple of weeks. you get paid for it anyways, like 7$/hr but you only work 4 hrs a day for 2-3 days a week. I think the tutoring itself is umm.. 15$/hr or so... but still you only work a few hours a day and a couple of days a week. I mean, if you can get the job then that would be great because it looks pretty awesome on a resume, though it pays pretty bad. I was looking for the same sort of thing.. you know, a job that I could actually put on a resume. Just fill out an application on the kaplan site. All it asks for is test scores... then you'll get an email giving you information about an audition and maybe a phonecall too. Hope that helped some.</p>
<p>Is anyone doing any research things?? I was looking for one around me - new york - or near my sister's place ( Johns Hopkins) would they take collegebound kids</p>
<p>Kaplan and Princeton usually choose ppl with near perfect SAT scores, ne? That's what it seemed like when I asked my PR about their scores. (1590 and 1600). My old Physics teacher used to work for Kaplan and had perfect on SAT as well.</p>
<p>sourtomatoe: I'm a junior in high school but I could give you some info. Government organizations in the DC/Metro area have opportunities for college bound kids in research facilities. NIH is really popular for biomedical and the SEAP-SQL program is popular for other types of research.</p>
<p>I will be working at Naval Research Laboratory over the summer through the SEAP program and will be doing meaningful work with a mentor and working on a project. I'm receiving a $1500 stipend but I think its double for college students.</p>
<p>PM if u need more info.</p>
<p>is that like realllllly tought to get into. Because i am goign to apply like today.</p>