What to expect from a banking internship as a high school rising sophomore.

I have been into the whole finance/banking thing since 7th grade and decided that I wanted to become an investment banker. Recently as a freshman in high school, I have acquired a summer internship at a small boutique through connections. I will be working 5-6 hours Monday-Thursday but the problem is that I don’t know what to expect. I don’t think that they would trust a high school student with doing stuff that interns who are in college do. And would this help on college apps?

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