I missed the December updates, but now I’m caught up!
My daughter changed her major a while ago, and her subjects don’t really need “internships.” She will have a job in nature again this summer, and it was pretty selective and sought after. A sort of “do it this year or you never will,” kind of situation.
She loves her time at BC and it will be sad when she graduates next year, but eventually she expects to go back to school. It’s a shame that such important programs, like Fulbrights, have been abruptly halted, she was encouraged along with a group of students to apply, but it seems a little hopeless. 
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Congratulations dramakid2 and BornMe and fingers crossed to all of the rest of you and your kids still seeking internships. dramakid2, that’s a crazy intense report on what kids are going through to get their foot in the door. Thank you for sharing that to give us all some perspective. Good on your S22 for sticking with it.
My S22 applied for and got an internship he was turned down for last year. It does not follow the academic calendar, though, so it has already started and will last into the fall semester. It’s a bit tough right now as he still has the rest of the semester to go, with tons of papers and exams coming up, but he says having so much to do keeps him really focused and on task.
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S22 is done for the year with school once this current semester ends in a month. He has sufficient units to graduate by Dec 2025 but wants to graduate with his friends in Spring 2026. So, he pushed one of his internship offers to Fall 2025, and will now be doing two back to back internships and taking a semester break from school.
I am thrilled for him but I have mixed feelings. While the semester away this Fall promises to be really cool opportunity, and will save us a semester’s worth of tuition fees I am sad that S22 is going to be away from the family for an extended period for the first time in his life. We have gotten so used to pretty much meeting up every week or so (brunch in SF, Hiking near Berkeley etc.) that its going to be pretty hard to be away from him for 4 whole months. Luckily, he will be in the Pacific Northwest so at least he will be a short flight away.
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Thanks, everyone, for your updates. I echo the stories shared about the challenge of securing an internship this summer. My D22, who is unsure what she wants to do, went in different directions with her applications and got a lot, lot of rejections. Even when she was invited for an initial interview, she only made it through those where the screening wasn’t done by speaking to the camera.
In the end, D22 chose a summer research internship at a US university/government lab (we hope it will not be cut 
). She’s looking forward to summer in the US and I plan to meet her at the end of her program and we will then drive around for a couple of weeks seeing friends and new places.
In the meantime, she’s totally stressed out by her upcoming “finals”, when 3 years of study are tested over a (I believe) 2-week period. Wish her luck!
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My D22 just landed her internship. She’s working in the publishing group for a major consultancy. She’ll be spending the summer in Atlanta, so we are scurrying around to find a sublet. It was a long and rough road to find a great fit that was full time and paid. I’m very happy for her!
She’s wrapping up junior year over the next 4 weeks. Her time at UCLA has gone by so fast… can’t believe next year is her last.
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My S22 wants to be a PT. He’s retaking Biology 1 and 2 this summer to raise his GPA. Can’t find an internship at a clinic, even at $13 per hour, unless he goes full time. Hopefully he’ll volunteer 15-20 hours a week.
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It’s still sinking in.
If you’ve kept along with my frustrating posts, my son finally got an internship offer!!!
It’s been a very long 16.5 months and over 420+ applications later, he got a bite.
Edited to add:
jumping through so many hoops chasing job offer:
- application/personalized resume/cover letter
- Online Assessment/HackerRank: Coding and/or
- Online Assessment: Math exam
- HireVue recorded interview
- interview with HR
- Technical interview
- CRAZY NEW ONE: a take-home assignment consulting case
- Final interview with 1-3 VP/C-level
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He’ll be doing Data Analytics for an AI company, downtown/by the water San Francisco.
So now we’re scouring for housing options (so expensive) while he studies for his finals/projects.
If anyone has any suggestions for SF housing…
Son’s going to reach out to UC Berkeley Theta Chi about summer housing; it’s a ~50min bus+train ride one way.
Thank you.
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You seem to know the SF/Bay Area.
Any suggestion for housing for my son for summer internship, with doable commute to NorthEast corner of San Francisco near the water?
He won’t have a car.
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Congratulations! I’m glad it worked out for him.
Best wishes.
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Thank you.
Thank you very much for your support.
I’m excited about a San Francisco vacation!
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My sons frat lets out rooms for the summer. Let me ask him and DM you.
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Congrats! Sounds like a great opportunity.
Still looking here. He put in about 250 applications for this summer and nothing. There is one internship that still looks promising, so hoping that comes to something this week. He’s been home for 2 weeks now and I’m ready for him to be more productive in some way.
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My S22 has had no luck finding a communications/media/sports internship, but fortunately he has his job with the school’s intramural sports leagues to fall back on. It’s not clear whether they’re playing a summer season or not, but S22’s boss is going to have him work in the office either way. Nice to be an appreciated and trusted employee.
In even better news, S22 has informed us that he’s going to be graduating a semester early, so he has just one semester left. Our D19 did the same from Parsons, so it’s a family tradition. The nest is almost truly empty!
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Thank you.
Yes, please. We would really appreciate it.
Hang in there!
If my son didn’t get an internship, he was just going to do some housing painting job during the day, and study for an actuarial exam at night.
It would be good to pass 1-2 actuarial exams before he graduates so he can pivot to the actuarial industry as a Plan C.
Plan A didn’t work out, so he’s now onto Plan B.
Sending along positive vibes!
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Thanks. We do need a plan B for sure. We talked about a couple of things, but nothing seemed very good to either of us. We will keep talking this week and crossing our fingers for that last chance internship!
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Very competitive out there for our kids! My son sent many resumes, had 4 interviews, but as a plan B, he also applied to 3 REUs. He was accepted to 2 of them and will be attending his top choice in June. Thrilled his REU wasn’t cancelled, and he was nervous the REU would get cancelled even after acceptance. However, we are somewhat assured as the REU is funded by a public company.
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See DM.
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I’m right in there with you all with summer plans coming down to the wire for D22. After the research jobs she had had her eye on got cancelled, one more research project at her school opened up just a few weeks ago and she got the job. The jobs itself is nothing exciting but it gets her the association with the project. She also got another job at her school, which has nothing to do with her field but has her create and coordinate student programming, which she finds interesting. So she will be working long hours this summer (she needs to earn money to make up for all she spent during her stay in Europe 
.) She feels ready after an amazing semester in Geneva, which after all the doubts last year if she should go or not, has turned out to be an amazing experience.
She knows she is lucky with how her summer jobs have turned out (she really did not have a plan B, as it seems even barista jobs are hard to come by these days). We will only see her for three days. She returns from Switzerland later this week, stays home for three days and then moves back to school for the rest of the summer.
Keeping fingers crossed for all 22s summer plans
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Would he be willing to work in a nursing home instead? At least around here they are always hiring, and will take part time workers. It isn’t glamorous but it provides plenty of opportunities to help the residents do their PT “homework” plus lots of experience learning to roll, transfer and ambulate patients.
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