Last year my friend didn't get any responses from prospective mentors. I think it was mainly cause he applied as a mechanical engineer major and he selected a lab that did no mechanical engineering projects.
Looks like my application got sent to my second choice after Brookhavent didnt want me. I was able to get an offer from Fermilab today! No interviews, was selected and given an email. So don't lose hope if you haven't been contacted!
Now I got to decide where to intern this summer, Berkeley Lab...
I had only one mentor reach out to me from CCI (Brookhaven) back in March 10th but they went with a different intern (got back to me the following Friday). I applied through the BLUR program as well at Lawrence Berkeley and was reached out by 2 mentors. One from the Joint Genome Institute and...