The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

I'm a semi-finalist who also has an internship with a FAANG company lined up for the Summer.

In the event I receive the scholarship, does the internship start the following Summer (2022) or would it start this Summer (2021)? If it is in 2021, is there a possibility of deferring? Has it ever been done before?

Thank you

The summer internship begins in summer 2022 (assuming you get it). If you are accepted, you also will have to do a site visit at your sponsoring facility for a day or two in the summer of 2021 around July-ish. I am a semi-finalist this year, but I have heard that some places did virtual site visits last summer, though I wouldn't expect that this year.