International Student deferring a semester and IB recruiting
Hi Monkeys, wanted to get your insight into something. TL;DR posted at the bottom.
I am currently an international student at a non-target university, I have been in the IB recruiting process but still don't have an offer. The whole announcement of international students possibly being deported from the US if all their classes went online sent my father into a frenzy. I know that has changed but he is still skeptical about it all. That is the main reason that he doesn't want me to go back to the US to be in person even though my school has hybrid classes. With that being said he doesn't want me to go full online from my country since he doesn't think dropping 50k for zoom university is a good idea (personally I agree). The only option that is left and the one that he is leaning towards is me deferring a semester and graduating a semester late (currently a rising junior so graduating Dec 2022 instead of May 2022). What I was wondering is how this would affect my IB recruiting. Would I have to go through recruiting again next year for SA 2022? Can I continue my SA 2021 process? How bad does it look for a bank when they see I deferred a semester? Seeing as I don't have an offer yet could this work as a second chance at recruiting or am I being delusional? Any opinions welcome.
TL;DR Current international student, a rising junior at non-target with no IB offer yet. Father wants me to defer a semester which would cause me to graduate in Dec 2022 instead of May 2022. Question is how would this affect my IB recruiting? I assume I have to go through recruiting again for a Summer 2022 internship but can I continue recruiting for Summer 2021? How bad does this look for a bank? Since I don't have an offer yet could this be a second chance at recruiting?
You would move to SA 2022 since you won't be ready to start FT in May 2022
Extra semester is a pretty common move because it gives you another shot at networking/recruiting. If you have solid leads for 2021, see them out, but moving grad back is fine especially with how this fall is looking. Use it as an opportunity to kill it on the networking side.
any advice for rereaching out to people you networked with the year prior? how do you structure the call and avoid being painted as a desperate past failure
Examples being an MD at an EB referred you but you didn’t get an offer following the superday
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An associate at a BB where you also got dinged after a first or second round
How are you going to do it? I'm considering this as well. I think most interviews wrap up at around October, so I'm afraid I might not be able to defer a semester..
I am also in the same boat. I have had some decent traction this year being from a non-target university but I feel like there could be so many improvements that could be made.
Plus, that gives me more experience that I can put on my resume and really improve it very materially. Plus, I feel like the job market should be much better for SA 2022.
I am leaning more towards extending my graduation by a semester instead, though.
Monkey in a similar situation here. If you recruited for 2022 SA, would you be able to start FT right after graduation? If not, what would you do during the period after your graduation and before starting FT?
not OP, but that's the problem. As an international student, you can't wait for a semester between being employed and graduating, so if your company doesn't allow you to join in the spring you are shit out of luck. I was going to be extending grad by a semester, but then luckily ended up with an offer for 2021, so don't have to go through this dilemma.
Couldn't you just intern during that period on CPT?
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