> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://myinternshiporganizer.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Internship statuses

> What each internship status means, and which ones Minto works out from the dates.

Every internship has a status. Some you set yourself; others Minto works out
from the dates and shows in place of the stored status. Knowing which is which
explains why a status sometimes appears to change on its own.

## Statuses you set

| Status                | Meaning                                                                                      |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Requested**         | The internship has been asked for but not agreed. This is where every new internship starts. |
| **Approved**          | The internship is agreed and going ahead.                                                    |
| **Prepared**          | Everything is arranged — placements, travel and programme are in place.                      |
| **Rejected**          | The internship won't go ahead.                                                               |
| **To Be Rescheduled** | Agreed in principle, but the dates need to change.                                           |

## Statuses Minto works out

These three are never stored. Minto calculates them from the internship's dates
each time the list is shown, and displays them instead of the stored status.

| Status       | When it appears                                                                                                         |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Running**  | The internship is **Approved** or **Prepared**, and the start date has passed.                                          |
| **Finished** | The internship is **Approved** or **Prepared**, and it has *both* a start and an end date, and the end date has passed. |
| **Expired**  | The internship is still **Requested**, and the start or end date has passed.                                            |

Two things follow from this:

* **You can't set Running, Finished or Expired.** They appear on their own once
  the dates pass, and disappear if you change the dates back.
* **Expired is a prompt, not a state.** It means a date passed while the
  internship was still only requested. Change the status first — an expired
  internship is frozen, so you can't fix the dates until you set it back to
  **To Be Rescheduled**. See
  [What you can change, and when](/docs/reference/internship-phases).

Exact dates are used when the internship has them. Otherwise Minto falls back to
the preliminary window, so an internship with only a rough window still becomes
Running and Finished at the right time.

## How statuses relate to placement

Status and placement progress are independent. An internship can be **Approved**
with nobody placed yet, and the list shows both:

* **Assigned** — interns who have been given a host firm.
* **Approved** — placements the host firm has confirmed.

<Frame caption="Status and placement progress are separate. The approved internship is fully assigned; the prepared one is only partly.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/minto-web/cTjJ1uyhEmW_9Zhr/images/screens/internships-list.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=cTjJ1uyhEmW_9Zhr&q=85&s=c6bf88a3c16fa02f512283384b0fc2fc" alt="The Minto internships list showing statuses Approved, Requested and Prepared alongside assigned intern counts." width="3200" height="1800" data-path="images/screens/internships-list.png" />
</Frame>

## Filtering by status

On the internships list, select **Status** to filter.

<Warning>
  The filter reads only the arrival and departure dates, never the preliminary
  window. So an internship showing **Running**, **Finished** or **Expired**
  because of its preliminary dates won't be returned by those filters — it comes
  back under its stored status instead. If a filter seems to be missing
  internships you can plainly see, this is why. Recording the arrival and
  departure dates makes the filter agree with the badge.
</Warning>