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[quote=Anonymous]"        My child opted for fit over ranking. He has had a great freshman year.

This summer (post-freshman year), he had trouble landing an internship.

Hard to know if that was due to low name recognition of his school or the fact that he is a freshman with very limited work experience. (Field is science)

Probably more of a freshman thing. Focus on the awesome first year. Internships aren’t everything.

+1 My company has a big internship program. We never hire students after freshman year. I expect to see a regular summer job (retail, camp counselor, etc.) on the resume for that summer. If it's something else I figure mommy/daddy got you the job with a friend."

The point of the summer after freshman year is to hold a job, any job.  If you got a job the summer before freshman year, you increase the odds of having a better job after freshman year.

None of these are really "full blown" internships in that they almost never lead to job offers.  Internships with enough responsibility to lead to a real job offer occur after junior year.

Yes, there are "training" internships that many pay enough to foot the bill of living in another city after sophomore year but the best result from those is being invited back, not a job offer.[/quote]

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