lmjdad, your daughter might be somewhat correct in that she will probably have to work harder to get a NYC internship from Alabama than she would from, say, Columbia. Many of the companies that are represented at the career fairs held at Alabama are from the southeast - Birmingham, Huntsville, Atlanta, Charlotte, etc. There are some national companies, and the Big 4 recruit at Bama, but most NYC firms are going to recruit at colleges where there’s a greater number of students seeking to work there. We noticed it with Chicago companies - they recruit at Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan, not at Alabama. That doesn’t mean students who want to work in NYC can’t find internships because they attend Alabama. But they will have to seek them out, network, send resumes to companies in which they’re interested, etc. I’ve seen students from Alabama get NYC internships, and I’ve seen other students struggle to find internships in their home cities. OTOH, I know plenty of Chicago area kids who went to school in the Chicago area and the midwest and tried to find Chicago internships and failed. I suspect the same is true of northeast students and NYC internships. There are a lot of top students at Alabama who are immensely successful, and those who seek it out get a lot of assistance from professors and others at Bama in achieving their goals.