[freedumb2003]

What is a “paid internship?”

I thought by definition an internship was unpaid, except medical school.

[KarlInOhio]

I don't know whether it went through, but Obama was trying to outlaw unpaid internships (except for government and non-profits). One of the arguments was that only rich kids could afford an unpaid job to make connections, especially in places like NYC.

I don't know what we pay the co-ops and interns, but it is nowhere close to that pay.

[billakay]

I thought by definition an internship was unpaid, except medical school.

Not in the Computer Science world. My first serious internship in grad school (Ph.D. level) was at Bell Labs and paid over $12k for the summer (in 2009). People who compete for these things are already extremely competent and can perform at the level of a typical entry-level employee or better.