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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"    OP here- thanks for the responses. He isn't looking for an internship this coming summer, it's the summer following his junior year that he wants to have an internship. He is aware that he will need to work on getting summer 2020 internship secured soon after he starts his junior year. This summer he will work waiting tables and make as much $ as he can.

Apply for an internship in a city with a minimum wage of $15.

Apply for internships in nonprofits and progressive organizations where hiring unpaid interns is increasingly frowned upon (my HS senior has an internship now in his likely field at a company whose clients are non-profits, and pay every interns DC minimum wage - $15/hour).

Apply for summer fellowships, etc offered by your kid’s university that will give stipends for off campus summer internships.

If you must do unpaid limit hours to 30/week to leave time to work for money at same time."

[b]OP, Your DC has a weakness already without a strong GPA.  They can't afford to not try to get something THIS year.

As someone suggested, despite it being LATE, DC should really expend some shoe rubber and ask every professor who might recognize him.

When they don't have anything, he needs to ask for the name/an introduction to another professor who might have something.

It is much better to have a tenuous 20 hr/wk job with a professor this summer to build up a decent recommendation for next year's internship and a 
lower paying table waiting job in a college town than a higher paying table waiting job in DC and NOTHING professional AT ALL.[/quote][/b]

I agree with this.  The internship opportunities build upon each other.  Both of our children had an internship every single summer (some were paid; some not).  We did have to call around to get the first internship after freshman year summer for one DC because she had dilly-dallied with applications.  We called some think tanks and got DC in.  But from that time forward, DC did all her own applications, had great recommendations from previous internship and got a more prestigious internship every summer.  Had she not had the previous internships (think tanks, U.S. Senate, Oxford), she would not have been able to compete for the fellowship she is now in.  I'm the person above advising that the parents get on the phone and call everyone they know and just flat out ask for an unpaid internship in DS's field of study.  I've personally experienced this from friends who have called me and asked for internships for their kids in my law firm.  If that is not possible, then do what I suggested about contacting every single professor in the department (obviously your son, not you, the parent) to see if there is any unpaid internships on campus for the summer.  You never know, sometimes a professor will say "Sure!" and viola you have an independent study and maybe a great letter of recommendation.  Also, send your son back to the career counseling office and seek its help in finding something in your son's field of study.  Times have changed since we were in college and worked summers.  The job market is very competitive.  The way to get a position is through prior internships and recommendations.[/quote]

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