<human>: I am going to school to be a Registered Dietician (RD). To be eligible to take the RD exam, you must partake in a dietetic internship (DI) that lasts for approx. 8-10 months.

The thing that has been bothering me lately is that almost all of these internships offer no payment for the interns. No financial help of any sort, which can be a burden, especially if you have to move to another area for the internship and must pay for living and food, etc. (which is highly likely as the internships are very competitive, and a national shortage of them causes students to apply potentially to internships very far away because they will actually get into them).

Some of these internships (I believe it is many of them actually) require the interns to PAY for the internship. That's right, kind of like paying a tuition for a full-time job (they are completely full-time internships). Mind you that these internships are a requirement to be eligible to take the RD exam.

Is this wrong? The more and more I think about it, it almost seems like a scam to me. Being an RD is highly regarded in the professional world, so it isn't a worthless title, but I can't help but think it is wrong what these internship companies are doing.

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: Is it wrong to have either get payed nothing or have to pay the internship as an intern for a dietetic internship?