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Update on my Internship Search as a CS Junior With 500+ Apps - US Citizen
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Here is an update from my couple other posts regarding my internship search. I started in August 2025, and am still looking. I am a US Citizen junior CS (GPA > 3.5) at a decent CS school with gradu
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Here is an update from my couple other posts regarding my internship search. I started in August 2025, and am still looking. I am a US Citizen junior CS (GPA > 3.5) at a decent CS school with graduation listed as Dec. '26 (next semester) on my resume, as I should be able to graduate early, assuming I don't fail my classes, haha. I have good on-campus tech club involvement and a prior internship which I don't want to go back to (only partially tech-related --not SWE/Cybersec/DevOps/etc). I am probably in the bottom tier of students with respect to how "cracked" I am. So, I am not looking to work at any big-name tech company; I am just interested in a technology internship where I don't need to pass intense technical interviews/live coding in order to secure it. Regardless of me applying to a mix of companies (big name, medium, small), my results are rather fruitless. The OAs I received in the above diagram were mainly from a segment of last semester when I was extremely busy, so I wasn't able to complete them. I have not gotten really any OAs recently. Anyway, this is just my situation to share as an update to my prior posts on this sub pertaining to my summer '26 intern progress (Null, as evident).
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