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by evenhash 28 days ago
You have to quote this part to really appreciate how self-contradictory this article is.

> We received almost a million applicants for 1,111 paid internships this summer.

~1000 applicants per internship! Not a job, an internship. How could that be interpreted as anything other than bleak?
4 comments
BoggleOhYeah 28 days ago
It's been a decade since I was in college but I used to send applications to every vaguely interesting internship, expecting less than 20% of them to contact me.

My university required an internship for graduation so you had to cast a wide net unless you wanted to wait to graduate.

Given how high-profile is and the number of students in the US, 1000 doesn't seem all that impressive.

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amscanne 28 days ago
Every candidate was probably applying to 100s or 1000s of jobs using AI tools.
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binary132 27 days ago
Also tech executives: “we have a talent shortage”
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lesuorac 28 days ago
idk, when I was applying for college a lot of people in the class applied to like 10 schools. There was always space in the education system for them (although maybe not at all of those colleges).

Kids these days are probably just more efficient and can 100x that!

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Imustaskforhelp 28 days ago
Teen here, I think that I have also applied on the same ~10 colleges level rather than 1000x but I do feel like I have looked for many colleges and I tried to find some international colleges but I am not quite sure about them too. I even made an HN post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097377

Anyways I would love to hear your suggestion.

That being said, I feel like an number of colleges apply to rate might still be lower (people might look at many many colleges though) but still not increased 100x

but I can't say the same about internship numbers and I feel like those numbers might have been very different.

I live in India and the Indian education system works a bit differently than American one which I think that I have hopefully fairly detailed it in the HN post.

Anyways, I would love if you would have some advice for which colleges I should apply to if you might have any as I would love to hear it!

Thanks and have a nice day!

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