Graduate a quarter late or give up junior year internship?

Due to family problems, I will not be able to complete my degree in 4 years. I could either take summer classes this year and forgo my junior year internship or take summer classes after my senior year and graduate a quarter late. If I intend to work at a MM bank, which should I do? I'm afraid that I would not get a full time offer after my internship since I would not be able to go to training right after I graduate.

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Details bro, we'll need them to give you advice.

That said I'd lean towards the internship, it doesn't really matter if you graduate a quarter late. If anything, you'll be on campus to participate in full time recruiting with the kids graduating in the class after you.

 

but then he'd be in the thread "how do i sneak out for interviews" and you'd be yelling with everyone else that going from one bank to a slightly better one is a waste. So you're basically getting him stuck at a bank he doesn't want to work at.

Personally, I'd graduate a semester later.

 

i think graduating later is beneficial, however this is from a European perspective. I don't not if people who stay longer in the U.S. are somehow stigmatized. You may want to check that, because "slow learner" or "slacker" is not exactly the kind of attributes you'd want to signal.

 

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