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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They find the internships in spring of their junior year. Sometimes NIH, NASA, NIST and sometimes researchers at universities. They work all summer -- summer between their junior and senior year -- and then finish their senior research project during their senior year. So the seniors you saw searched Winter 2016, worked Summer 2016, finished project Fall 2016-Winter 2017."

How do they manage to get around the application process that other students must go through to get into NIH, NASA, NIST, and universities?  They seem to have got into research projects that weren't part of the official summer experience at these facilities.[/quote]

I don't understand this question.  They apply like everyone else.  They could also do other work - with professors at universities near by -- for their research project.  My son applied to NASA and NIST and other places just like everyone else I suppose.  They email academics directly like everyone else.  The parents of other children with internships at NIH, etc I know are government attorneys -- so not connected in any way to these institutions.  They explain the programming languages they know, their test scores, the academic awards, etc.  I believe that's how they get their positions.

I appreciate the general concern about nepotism and entitled connections.  It appears oddly directed to students who go to Blair (remember -- this is the school roundly mocked on this forum for too many FARMS kids and too much diversity) and get 1500-1600s on their SATs.  These aren't rich connected parents.  These are children of government attorneys, NGOs, and academics.

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