They attend private schools and summer camps, take music lessons, get extensive SAT tutoring, land prestigious internships, take trips overseas and generally do what the less affluent cannot afford to do.
Indian protectionism of education has been so bad, and has weakened its education system so much, that a few years ago the president of IIT-Bombay barred students from taking overseas internships in an effort to keep Indian brainpower at home.
He says LMU offers funded overseas internships, mentoring programmes and holiday-season mini-courses (€95 (£85) for 40 hours of class time) in subjects like presentation and rhetoric, leadership, time management and communication, and conflict management, as well as a "professional education unit" for former students looking for a skills bump.
He says LMU offers funded overseas internships, mentoring programs, and holiday-season mini-courses (95 euros, or about $110 ,for 40 hours of class time) in subjects like presentation and rhetoric, leadership, time management and communication, and conflict management, as well as a "professional education unit" for former students looking for a skills bump.
The recruitment of the English sub-sample was facilitated by the overseas internships of a doctoral candidate.
"I think if a student is interested in pursuing any sort of career outside of the U.S., it's a great idea to immerse yourself in the environment" through an overseas internship, said Lauren Berger, author of "All Work, No Pay" and chief executive of Internqueen.com, an online internship site.
Ms. Burns, who was named this month as the next chief executive of Xerox, 28 years after joining the company for a summer internship, was traveling overseas last week and unavailable for an interview.
Will a summer job or internship be harder to get if you're overseas during spring semester?
Enternships.com lists internships run by entrepreneurial companies, including a fair few overseas (enternships.com/en/enternships).
The federal president of the Australian Medical Association recently lamented that locally trained junior doctors could not find internship places while Australia continues to import graduates from overseas [ 10].
