When am I likely to hear back from an internship for which the application was due Jan 31st?

[TrishaK1997]

I'm so anxious about this internship! My GPA could have used a bit of work (3.7), but my essay and LoR were very good I think! Any idea when I might hear back? Mid March? Early March?

[fuzzylogician]

This is literally one of those "it depends, we can't know" kind of questions. You can use the Results search to see if anyone's posted about the same position in previous years to get some idea. Beyond that, at best we could guess, but we could be off by weeks. It depends on the people (how many applicants, how many committee members), the process (everyone reads everything? some earlier stage of cutoffs with some applications never being read? interviews?), and other commitments the committee will have (are there job hires at the same time? midterm season? personal factors? teaching obligations? travel?). Point being, I don't think we can help, unfortunately.