Match a random white girl for pre med? Do I have a chance at T50s? [international, lives in OH, 3.93 GPA, 1530 SAT, <$20k parent contribution]

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This is veering a little off topic…but maybe the discussion can go to this thread.

@not and others. Here is a whole thread about how kids got internships. Some used connections. Others did not.

My opinion…connections get you TO the door but not necessarily through the door. Getting through the door is on the student…unless their parent owns the company.

How did your kids get college internships?

There has been a lot of discussion on various threads about college internships and how readily available or easy it might be to get them at certain colleges or in certain cities. So I thought maybe a thread might be helpful. I’ll start with what I know. Some kids get internships via connections that their families or friends of families have. This was actually pretty common. In our case, one parent company (engineering) had a policy that every child of an employee who was majoring in engineering would be welcome in the summer to intern. My engineering major kid declined the offer because she had found other employment that she enjoyed, and that paid her well (she didn’t call her job an internship…but that seems to be what a lot of folks call summer jobs now). Some of our kids’ friends got internships via interviews through the career centers at their colleges. No real pattern…they went to school all over the place but seemed to find things of interest to them. Some kids looke…