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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Luckily, not all professors are as closed-minded as OP. Some high school students ARE capable of producing publishable research. Just because you couldn't do it when you were young, doesn't others can't achieve it.[/quote]

It's not about being close-minded. We...literally can't do this for a number of reasons. If kids are getting "internships" at colleges it's not through professors or typical channels: it's through official programs that are sanctioned and built for this type of thing, and it's not a real internship in the sense that a college student would have (but I am sure these things have value of their own). Emailing a professor is not the way, but you could email a professor to ask about a program or to see if you could stop by their office (but know that we need to refer that back to admissions for record keeping and because these kids are unaffiliated minors).

I get similar emails. I have a bunch of scripts on my desktop that I copy and paste from for things that come up often and require instructions or rote responses. It works pretty well and eliminates a lot of frustration for me.  [/quote]

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