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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chem, pre-med. Large state U. Nothing.[/quote]
Why would a company give an internship to a premed student?  Internships are for recruiting and pre meds want to go to med school, not get jobs.[/quote]
Call it, "Summer job in a field that will give useful experience or application  boost" instead of "internship," then. Is that OK with you?[/quote]

This. An "internship" to me is any major/career-related summer job. Not all companies that hire summer interns have any intention of hiring those students the next year.

I used to run my department's internships (unfortunately lost to budget cuts). We had an intern slot year round, three per year (summer, fall, spring). We did occasionally hire an intern because the department had one entry level role that tended to turn over every 2-3 yrs so when I needed to fill that I'd look to recent interns. But that meant the great majority were never in consideration for a FT job. But I and my colleagues were always happy to help with connections, references, resume review, etc to assist with job search.

DD just got a "summer job" in her field which she picked over an offer that was labeled an "internship" because the summer job was more closely related to her desired career path and the manager there seemed to have greater potential as a long term mentor for that field. Regardless of what it's called, to me it fits in the internship category.[/quote]

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