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Junior applicants get flagged at twice the rate, and the nervous-student habits you can't help are exactly what trips it.
If you would intern in the summer of 2028, your recruiting cycle is closer to opening than you think.
Scammers know a student hunting in June will click almost anything. Your desperation is the product they are targeting.
The student with no experience has one real advantage right now, and almost everyone throws it away by padding the page.
Junior hiring started falling before ChatGPT even launched. The thing actually squeezing you is different, and it is beatable.
Most students fight over the small slice of roles on the job boards. The bigger slice gets filled before it ever goes public.
The best internships open in the next six to eight weeks. If you wait until spring, you are applying for what is left.
Fall internship applications are open right now, which means the next eight weeks are not a gap to survive. They are a runway to build on.
In a market where AI screens out cold applicants, the people you meet this summer are worth more than the offer you are chasing.
The tasks that used to be a whole internship now cost tokens, not a summer. That changes what gets you the offer.
The fall internship pool shrinks dramatically, the deadlines are live this week, and you would be applying while almost no one else is.
