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<p>My impression is that the vast majority of students don’t do research or internships between freshman and sophomore year. Foe engineering students, freshman year consists of just the fundamentals. Students aren’t even permitted to enter upper level engineering until after those fundamentals are out of the way, and I don’t think that happens often, or at all, prior to the first semester of sophomore year. So, a rising sophomore just doesn’t have much to offer in the way of research or internship potential. For that reason, I’m under the impression that most students put research and internships off until the following year or even the year after that.</p>