Employment History - Including Internships?

[cbsag123]

When schools ask for employment experience since secondary school, does that include (unpaid/underpaid) internships and such or is it limited to actual employment? For example, following my freshman year I had an unpaid internship for 2 months over the summer. Would I include this?

[gradpumpkin]

I would suggest putting that on your CV. My guess is that while these portals (which are standard and used for every department) ask you to redundantly list out stuff you've already mentioned elsewhere, departments will be primarily looking at your actual materials. So, no I wouldn't count it under employment, but I would count it as work experience on your CV if it is related to political science.