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Relax, was a joke. All offers are commendable so congrats on securing the bag.

This is, however, a serious predicament. Firms train the entire (global) banking class together and that training typically begins in early July so will be tough to wiggle out of this one. Is your class every single day for the first two months of the summer?

Few (if any) people on this website will be able to give you the advice you need. Realistically you really only have a few outcomes:

1) Hope that HR will allow you to miss training and continue with the SA 2020 start date (assumes you can convince them that you will still pass the required licensing exams and that they're not super annoyed with you)

2) Hope that HR will allow you to defer your offer to SA 2021 (can't speak for CS/Barclays but, just to give you some perspective, a friend in my analyst class received a super prestigious fellowship--Rhodes/Schwarzman/Gates Cambridge/etc.--and the firm did not let said person defer their start date a year to join after the fellowship)

3) HR rescinds your offer.

If I were in your shoes, I'd start by talking to my school's OCR team on how to manage the situation (e.g. see if they can massage the firm relationship in any way). Beyond that, you have to talk to the firm.

Is there a way you can position this as something came up (e.g. personal/family wise or financial that made you have to withdraw from a class or something?) that created this problem rather than personal oversight? Don't think firms would look too fondly on the latter given the focus on attention to detail and all.