<p>“…while the other sends kids out to find those kinds of internships on their own.”</p>
<p>My impression is that the majority of kids from virtually all colleges do find internships essentially on their own, with some aid from their career centers.</p>
<p>However, the implication that Oberlin does not have programs that help their students in this regard, beyond maintaining a career center website, is not correct. I am personally familiar with two programs that do substantially more for students than “send kids out on their own”. Both the Coles Scholars program and the Business Scholars program are excellent, a great deal of effort is put forth on behalf of the kids. And that’s just two of the programs there that I happen to know about.</p>
<p>In the latter, they are intensively prepped, meet with alumni in the financial industry, and are actually taken to Wall Street firms.Where interviews do happen. It’s not the same situation as Wharton, but the effort expended by the college and alumni is far beyond “sending kids out on their own”. </p>
<p>Even at the majority of the so-called “target schools” for IB, only a minority of kids are actually landing those most coveted IB positions. The rest have to do something else as well.</p>