Is it crazy to turn down a full time IB offer after SA to stay longer in school (eg. doing Honours)

Hey guys, like the topic suggests, how many of you would think that its crazy to turn down a full time IB offer after SA to stay longer in school (eg. doing Honours).

The reason I'm asking this is because I've been thinking, actually one extra year in school might not be that bad considering you might be able to go on different programmes with that additional year, eg. Overseas internships in Silicon Valley (my school offers one)

What do you guys think?

 

Doubt you'd get any positive feedback on here. I'm going assume it is IB that you want; in which case it's rather crazy to turn it down for spending another year in school. This is one of those typical career vs. 'what you want' decisions. So yeah, only you will know the right answer. Are you going to cry yourself to sleep in a year's time if you don't have an IB offer? Or will you be bitching about how you never got to work in the Valley as you change slide title fonts at 1 am?

 

Stop talking this retard into it. Why would you want people like this working in your industry anyway? Let him do what he wants to do.

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Stop talking this retard into it. Why would you want people like this working in your industry anyway? Let him do what he wants to do.

Lol half the people in this industry are sheep retards

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I'm going to against the grain here and suggest that you find a way to do both. Doing an overseas internship in the Valley could be an incredible experience. Who knows, maybe you'll discover something besides IB that you are truly passionate about. Perhaps you could ask to defer your start date, explaining that you want to obtain honors and participate in some overseas programs.

When I was a junior, I was struggling with participating full-on in internship recruiting vs. studying abroad. A quote I read on here from our very own Midas Mulligan Magoo convinced me to do the latter: "IB will always be there. Seeing the world while you're still young will not."

Now, I'm not advocating for one path or the other. It's your life and it would be presumptuous for me to believe that I know what's best for you. However, I just wanted to say your dilemma here is certainly colored with gray and is not as black and white as the previous responses may suggest.

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - DT
 

If it makes any difference to your decision I turned down a FT BB offer to get a master's at Oxford.

My logic was- the industry will always be there, but some chances at school are once in a lifetime. It may sound silly to some but in the long run I didnt want to be the guy who in ten years was regretting not going to Oxford. It also hasnt hurt me a bit in recruiting- had plenty of SA offers

 

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