Summary, Scope, and Responsibilities
The Admission Summer internship is a full time, on-campus summer opportunity. Helping prospective and admitted students, their loved ones, and any visitors at large feel comfortable with our campus and our community is a critical piece of our work and, over the summer, the Summer Interns are leaders in helping prospective/admitted students to begin seeing themselves as members of the Bates community overall.
This role works with a team of other Bates students to carry out tours, in-person and virtual specialized programming, Open Houses and larger visit days, information sessions, panels, desk coverage and welcoming guests into the office, virtual correspondences with prospective students, and a number of special projects in collaboration with staff members around the Admission Office. Professional development and continued training opportunities will be facilitated throughout the summer as well, providing Summer Interns with long-lasting mentoring connections, leadership opportunities, and widely applicable skill tool kits.
We strongly encourage students of all backgrounds, life experiences, interests, and identities to apply. This is absolutely a role where we celebrate the complexity of the Bates student body at large.
The Basics
Department:Admission
Supervisor:
Sadie New
Office Location:
Lindholm House
Email:
snew@bates.edu
Hours:
3
Workers:
40
Qualifications, Requirements, and Responsibilities
Responsibilities
The Admission Summer internship is a full time, on-campus summer opportunity. Helping prospective and admitted students, their loved ones, and any visitors at large feel comfortable with our campus and our community is a critical piece of our work and, over the summer, the Summer Interns are leaders in helping prospective/admitted students to begin seeing themselves as members of the Bates community overall.
This role works with a team of other Bates students to carry out tours, in-person and virtual specialized programming, Open Houses and larger visit days, information sessions, panels, desk coverage and welcoming guests into the office, virtual correspondences with prospective students, and a number of special projects in collaboration with staff members around the Admission Office. Professional development and continued training opportunities will be facilitated throughout the summer as well, providing Summer Interns with long-lasting mentoring connections, leadership opportunities, and widely applicable skill tool kits.
We strongly encourage students of all backgrounds, life experiences, interests, and identities to apply. This is absolutely a role where we celebrate the complexity of the Bates student body at large.
Requirements
Summer Interns will start on June 8th and will run through August 28th. If those dates are unmanageable for you, please still consider submitting an application and be in touch with Sadie New (snew@bates.edu) throughout the application process to work through your individual circumstances. A secondary start date/end date can potentially be provided on a 1-1 basis.
Successful applicants will be enthusiastic, organized, effective communicators, responsible, excited to learn, and detail-oriented.
This position is open to all class years. Training will be completed on campus in the Spring/Winter semester 2026, though training can occur at the beginning of the summer if you are abroad Winter 2026. No prior experience in the Admission Office is required, though prior experience is welcomed.
Reporting
This position in its entirety reports to Students in Admission (SIA) Supervisor, Sadie New, Admission Counselor. Please contact snew@bates.edu with any questions.
Working Conditions
This is a full-time position with in-person and occasional virtual responsibilities. Summer Interns will be in-person Monday through Friday from 8:30am-4:30pm, with a one hour lunch break. Summer Interns will also take part in occasional evening and weekend programming, in which case normal day hours will be adjusted to ensure they are able to stay under 40 working hours. Summer Interns will be allowed seven unpaid vacation days to use throughout the summer, and those dates will be submitted at the beginning of the internship.
Applicants must be prepared to give tours in potentially carrying weather conditions for roughly an hour.
*To assist with the feasibility of accepting this position, the Admission Office will financially cover lunch for all Summer Interns throughout the extent of their time working in the office over the summer.