Admissions Thoughts/Help on DOE CCI application for specific project areas

[Hopper_18]

Hello, I am currently a second year community college student applying for the DOE CCI summer internship. I was wondering if anyone had any idea of the priority of the labs will determine if I accepted. By this I mean, for example, I was applying to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the technical project areas of biotechnology (non medical), nanotechnology, and engineering technology -biological, but on the DOE CCI application page it has a pdf where neither of those three are listed as priorities. Link here https://science.osti.gov/-/media/wdts/cci/pdf/CCI---Project-Areas-by-Lab---last-updated-10-2022.pdf
To get to that pdf is found here under priority
https://science.osti.gov/wdts/cci/How-to-Apply/Selecting-a-Host-DOE-Laboratory/
Should I change the labs I’m applying to in order for my technical project choices to line up with the specific priorities of the National Lab, or does it not matter? Thank you for any information that can be provided.

 

[Dr Transport]

If your priorities do not line up with the national labs priorities, I wouldn't apply there. I'd apply someplace else.

 

[Vanadium 50]

If your priorities do not line up with the national labs priorities, I wouldn't apply there. I'd apply someplace else.

This.

Also, if a Lab has one opening for a project and two applicants, your chances are better than if there ten applicants. It is possible for something to matter without that being actionable.