lpoolynwa

Samrae, yeah I got the email everyone's talking about. Glad to know at least they have my application.

Don't know if they've contacted my recommenders or references...
Why can't I just get some closure?!

scanman1722

ok folks well i just joined after searching endlessly for other applicants. i did not get any email today though i do have some inside information (believe it or disregard it, whatever): i worked on the campaign in iowa during the primaries and then went back to college. my boss in iowa went on to work with the woman who runs the internship program and she told him last week that they got 4000 applicants and were not sure exactly how many they were taking.

what did the email say exactly? anyone feel comfortable copying and pasting it?

nupenupeyooo

Yeah this is getting out of hand. I figure by the end of the night if this thread is filled to the brim with thousands of new members you can cancel the narrowing down jazz (if you can't already). But hey anything to feed HOPE huh? Works for me. I'm a big fan of blind optimism.

Hey they say Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen.. Well, there definately isn't any substance to the speculation nor evidence to support it.

But, I rather put the good old blinders on and hold on to any reasoning for HOPE!!!LOL

AwesomeOpossum

4000???? That's a huge number I can't imagine that many people getting an application prepared in such a small time! Then again they did say they expected a huge turnout.

blarg

I'm actually relieved it was only 4000. I honestly expected like 30,000 applicants.

scanman1722

by the way...the fact that you didnt get the email or an interview doesnt mean ****.

first off, i doubt they're interviewing people and i'd be willing to guess the one kid on here that said he was interviewed was either lying or his/her parents maxed out during the primary and general.

second, everyone applying has good experience/qualifications otherwise they wouldnt be stupid enough to apply. dont worry about your experience, connections, grades, etc.

nupenupeyooo

4000 Applications? Honestly I was expecting more. Seesh, they got like 12,000 for the Obama Organizing Fellowship Program last summer. They ended up taking around 3,500. But this is a different cookie. I was expecting the number to be higher than the Campaign Fellowship tally just for the simple fact that it's the freaking White House!!! Who wouldn't want to work there, and people would be lining up to work for Obama if he ran a fruit stand! So I figured the number would be somewhere around 25,000.

4000? As low as a number as that is. As an applicant I hope you are right!!!

Itinerant_Envoy

4000 applications, wow! And it was only up for a few weeks... I can't imagine how many they would have received if it were up longer. According to Princeton Review's "Best 109 Internships", the White House internship program received approximately 2,800 applications annually (spring, summer and fall) under the Bush administration.

I hope they boost the number of positions to 200, but I know they have to make room for DC summer scholars as well.

AwesomeOpossum

I was under the impression that the DC scholars program was a watered down version of the internship but that they don't actually replace intern spots since they come in a month later

lpoolynwa

scanman1722, obsessed copy and pasted the email that people have been getting on page 8.

nupenupeyooo

Maybe everyone who got the email got accepted into the program and they need these next four days to contact us all??? lol Yeah I'm going to step away from the bong of Hope and comeback to reality...Sorry guys.

doctorjohndorian

actually just heard it was 100 spots 7000 applicants, which is a yield of about 1%. making it one of the most competitive things in the world.

doctorjohndorian

White House Internship

let's share with the world

draz25

I have been emailing the office like crazy to see if they got my application and I still haven't heard from anyone....in addition to the fact that I have yet to receive a confirmation email.

what does this mean??!???
help?

nupenupeyooo

Sounds like the same odds in a 1996 poll on the chance of having a Black President in 2009.

I like those odds... and it's a 1.4% chance...that's almost 2% when you sprinkle some hope on it...lol