Dream Internships and Dubious Academic Credit for Sale: $9,500

By SARA LIPKA

A good internship is hard to come by. University of Dreams can help.

For up to $9,500, the company will make a student an intern. Participants name their choice industries and destinations: real estate in San Francisco, marketing in London, publishing in Barcelona. Then the company finds them a position, which is almost always unpaid.

For summer internships, students apply in the winter. Not everyone gets in. According to the company's president, Chris Duggan, University of