#Freshmen Internship

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lyric zodiac
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Im a current College Freshmen in a pretty average CS school trying to land a resume for this summer literally anywhere. Havnt heard back from anywhere and just a bit nervous. Want opinions on my resume and want to know if its possible for me to attain a internship this summer. Ive applied to probably over 100 places. some local too.

torn thorn
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Experience that isn't actual work experience (as in being hired by a company) is very iffy. Many people are going to tell you to put it on there but others won't.

Personally I recommend replacing your startup with work experience somewhere else even outside of tech, but keep the club experience up there because that's cool. Then move the start-up down to projects because it definitely seems like something you want to show off.

Work experience is more of a place to say "other people hired me and I was successful there, I can be successful with your company too if you give me the chance". Putting startup experience up there looks a little like you haven't had a job up until now which makes you far riskier of a hire than the sophomore who worked at Target.

Your project bullet points are also way too long, they should be 2 lines each max. It kinda looks like you maybe pasted them over from something else and didn't re add the bullets tbh.

As someone who goes to a VERY average CS school imma be real getting your first internship as a Freshman is pretty unlikely without connections. The first internship is seriously the hardest to get, if you land one the year after sophomore year I would be happy. Keep on applying and keep on grinding awesome projects.