I actually thought the same thing about the internship cycle last year. At the school I went to, almost every engineer I knew had accepted an internship by December and many had by October. I was actually really surprised to see that many great students from schools that don't have a heavy GOOG/MSFT/AMZN, etc. recruiting presence were looking for internships up through the end of April. Also, we saw a lot of sophomores applying around this time as well.

Startups tend to be less picky about year of graduation and more interested in the capabilities of the student. The best intern I've had was a sophomore who within a month was contributing like a regular member of the team. We had him stay on part-time through the next school year.

I'm pretty confident we'll find good students again this year even in April. If this experiment goes well, we'll probably try another push in the fall to help startups edge in on big company recruiting territory.