<p>OP, please do not listen to anybody that says to do nothing during the summer. Sleeping in and laying by the pool is not productive and could be a ding in your application. There are ALWAYS jobs wherever you live and showing something is better than nothing. The no job or doing nothing during the summer may have worked for one student, but it is not advisable and you probably won’t find anybody here onn CC, parent or student, that would advocate complete summer downtime. Oh…except for one. My bad.</p>