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What city are you in? What experience do you have? I got my SA last year from a top shop a few days before Xmas so don’t freak out you can still remedy the situation. How many other opportunities do you have open? PM if you’d prefer to.

I was in school during the GFC. Didn't land a junior year internship until April!

Lots of people find internships in the spring for the summer, literally you can (and should) keep recruiting and being hyper active until June and then keep going. Clearly, best to not solely rely on posted jobs (even if via your campus portal), and network with alum in the firms you are targeting or applying to. You have no idea how much value an "internal" referral matters (def can get you an interview alone, but carry weight beyond that often). You didn't say if you were doing this or not, so be sure you are! 

Also, not sure if this is totally true, but I've sensed a lot of firms have been 'pausing' various recruiting items given market conditions, this may affect internship decision making as well (not sure to be clear, but its plausible that some firms are 'ghosting' as they don't want to send offers out only to be forced to rescind as layoffs or other things happen). In theory, they could totally pull the trigger in spring (both in making decisions on those interviewed and/or posting more summer roles). So, follow up persistently with all places you applied to. Maybe even reach back to those who said no (really can't hurt). I think this strategy is probably good every year, but may be especially wise this year. 

Final point, I get the "100 + ES" thing, but I'd say be wider and more open to where you apply. Those 101 firms (not sure if you meant that so literally or not), is a very very fickle and frankly an irrelevant list for determining worthwhile for internship or even FT. Just consider any 'institutional' or even 'locally respectable' firm fair game. Even work in places like appraisal shops may be very good under current market conditions. Bottom line, do something this summer, even if not 'ideal'!

I'm so sorry to hear that you haven't been able to land an offer yet. It's tough, especially when you feel like you have the qualifications and have been putting in the work. It's like trying to make your way through a desert with no oasis in sight. It feels like you are looking for a needle in a haystack, but the needle is tiny and the haystack is ever growing. I know how it feels to be in your shoes. It can be discouraging, especially when you have worked so hard and feel like you have been overlooked. It's like trying to watch a movie without the ending, you know what's going on but it's not quite complete.

It can be hard to stay motivated and keep a positive attitude in times like these, but it's important to keep reminding yourself that everyone has different paths to success. Just look at the Easter holiday, it's a celebration of the victory over death, so it's a reminder to stay hopeful and keep pushing forward. And if you take a closer look, you'll see that it's not just about the end result, but the journey too. It's not just about the internship, but it's also about the growth and learning experiences. You can still find success and fulfillment in your journey to SA, even without an internship.

As others have said above, we just started December and many places don't pull the trigger on interns until the spring anyways (in a good year without looming recessions and layoffs). This past year's class of interns at our shop weren't set until probably mid to late April (later than we normally do but you get the picture). Also, if you already have experience with internships you could always ask to come back for another summer and start your career there.. you are going to have 40+ years to make the jump to a top 100 REPE (or just make whatever place you land a top 100 REPE by performing well and fundraising but that's another conversation all together). Just breathe and relax, it's great that you have all this enthusiasm to do great, but it's so early that I wouldn't have the mindset of "my life and career is over if I don't get X internship this summer" if I were you. 

Yeah man recruitment for SA sucks but something that helped me a lot was being a part of this commercial real estate program called Project Destined that you can do for the Spring if you have 6-8 hours a week to spare. They partner with top companies, a lot of them in the PERE 100 like Brookfield, CBRE, BentallGreenOak, Tishman Speyer, etc. If you get accepted into this program, they send out a lot of internship/full-time opportunities you can apply to for Summer 2023. If you wanna know more just pm me.