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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sophomore DD is an environmental science major. Has a summer internship in natural resources management with our county. [/quote]

Also, this is her second summer with this team. Last year [b]she applied to about ten jobs in Jan-Mar[/b]. Had two offers by spring break.[/quote]

Wow this makes me question my DD going into CS where I hear kids applying to 200+ jobs starting in July and not getting offers. Is the CS major this competitive? Is this going to get even worse?[/quote]

I was surprised at how easy it was for her to get a job but I think the big determinants were:
 
1) she's willing and happy to do hard labor in heat and humidity all summer long, actually prefers it to sitting at a desk. For an ES major applying to corporate jobs, I expect the competition is much, much greater. Especially in the current job environment where all federal hiring is gone, it's going to get harder. I know so many kids majoring in ES. Some are also "outdoorsy" but not all. [the challenge can be finding jobs for ES that involve more than just the hard labor. She also gets to be involved in planning projects, doing public education, setting up and analyzing experiments]

2) She had significant experience on her resume to demonstrate that yes, she does like working outside and isn't going to bail on you part way through the summer -- camp counselor at a very outdoors-focused camp, volunteer work, work as part of college classes.

3) One of the offers was from a job that didn't seem to be widely posted (I'm a librarian and very good at search techniques and helped her with finding job listings), and the other she found a personal connection to the office (that's the one she accepted).

In contrast, my son is a data science major, applied to 100+ jobs sophomore year and didn't get an internship (ended up working retail). Partly, he realized he started too late by missing Fall hiring. Junior year he tackled internship applications like a class in Fall semester, applied to 100+ jobs and had an internship by Fall break, did well there, and will work there after graduation.

The trade off, of course, is that DD's post-graduation salary will no doubt be significantly less than DS's. [/quote]

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