It is always important to maintain some amount of self-awareness. Applying to 200 internships and not getting a single response should signal something in your

It is always important to maintain some amount of self-awareness. Applying to 200 internships and not getting a single response should signal something in your brain. I'm not saying some form of discrimination is not at play, but at some point you have to be realistic. It seems in the same vein as people being postdocs for 20 years while waiting for a instructor position to open up. Crying foul isn't going to help. That doesn't mean it's not worth writing articles like this one, but I don't think it's going to change much. As long as there is some notion of "prestige" it's going to attract far more people than there are seats, and someone has to get turned away. Meritocracy is a pipe dream.