Penultimate / Final Year Student SA 2021 in London - any info?

Hello!

Banks normally state that the applicant has to be in penultimate year, however, many banks are not strict regarding this question, for example JPM. First of all, it would be a huge problem for the majority of MSc students in the UK that still don't have enough experience to apply for a FT role.

To short it up, I suppose the list of the names will be smaller with the reverse question - which banks are strict about penultimate year rule for SA programme? 

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I was in a similar boat. It's hard to sometimes get the banks to go on record saying they're ok with it since they don't explicitly list it on their website. I would say the best bet is to see if your master's program allows for a late graduation (by one semester, so if you were meant to graduate in June 2021 you can put December 2021) so that you can have extra time to complete your thesis, because then you're automatically eligible for all of them. 

 

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