How competitive are Yale students with each other?

SoftballFan
Fri, 04 May 2018 20:19:11 +0000

@IxnayBob
Interesting!!! I was just wondering about the same thing last week when my DD mentioned that she’s looking for another undergraduate interested in joining her at a paid internship she landed for this summer! Apparently the budget that was just approved for the research is higher than expected which allows the team to hire another undergraduate team member (my DD is currently the only undergraduate in the team). It’s a 10-week commitment on campus (the research team’s headquarters) and traveling to Maine & Canada a few times for field work -all travel expenses paid except summer housing/meals but the compensation package is substantially enough to cover housing/food expenses for 10 weeks in New Haven. Long story short… most of her friends already have plans for this summer and as of today she hasn’t been able to find someone qualified (mainly interested in conducting research with a group of graduate students & professors from the school of environmental studies) who is ready to commit! I asked my DD how could that be? I would have taken the opportunity in a heart beat! But apparently people in her circle of friends already committed to participate in other things this summer! Must be nice to have so many opportunities and for your fellow students to reach out to you for potential paid internships and work! I certainly didn’t have that level of collaboration where I went to school!