Graduating Early After SA 2027 – Has Anyone Done This?
I already have and accepted an SA 2027 offer in IB at a BB. When I recruited, I was expected to graduate in 2028, but due to financial reasons I’m graduating a year earlier than expected in three years total.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? If you recruited as a 2028 grad but later accelerated your graduation timeline, was the bank willing to convert you to full-time and let you start earlier? Or did they expect you to stick with your original graduation date?
Trying to understand how common this is, how banks typically handle it, and whether graduating early could create any issues with a return offer, or if I’d need to kick rocks for my entire senior year if I get a return offer.
So you’re graduating in Fall 2027?
It would be Spring 2027, before my internship even starts.
I'd check with your firm's policies. The internships I've had with large companies expect you to return to school (or at least a degree program) after completion of your internship. Worst case, maybe push back to fall '27.
Just take a bullshit online class in Fall 2027, can literally be intro to jerking off doesn’t matter. Anything to push grad to appropriate timeline, because firms are pretty strict abt grad date from what I’ve heard. Even if you’ve met the requirements for your major to graduate, I think if you’ve met explain the situation to your college advisors they’ll give you a pass. Edit: saw you’re able to push to Fall 27 by saving credits I’d say go with that.
Would be Spring 2027, a full year early, could also postpone some credits to make it Fall 2027 if that would help my case
No idea never seen this but interested so for your case bumping
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Just take an online class next fall.
Usually all firms have a policy of requiring you go back to school after the internship. What my school (and afaik, most schools do) allows is becoming a part-time student for your last semester with a reduced credit load. So you would finish all your requirements in the 3 years as you’re planning right now. Then, you would do your internship. You would then come back to school for one more semester, where you would take a singular class (consider virtual/asynch class if housing costs are an issue). You would pay per credit in this case, which would be like 3k for a 3 credit class (thievery), but most importantly - satisfy your company’s requirement.
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