Recruiting for FT one year earlier, is this appropriate and feasible?

I'm originally a class of 28 student recruiting for SA. In the process of a few interviews, killed some bombed some and waiting for offers.

But something personal happened on my end recently and I'm thinking about graduating one year early and apply for full time this summer. I do have a pretty solid sophomore summer intern if that helps for my FT application.

A few concerns - 1. I can graduate early if I change one of my dual major to a minor 2. It's due to some personal issues (not related to recruiting btw) that made me think about applying for FT earlier, if this doesn't happen then I'll be happy to touch grass in the rest of my two years in college, however things don't always work as what I would expect. 

I don't know if I'll be automatically dinged if I apply for FT in the same year that I applied for SA positions though... I also think I might be able reach some groups that's more "fun" to me instead of the traditional M&A coverage groups. I'm an international student so I'm more lean staying in a firm for long term instead of exiting to PE after two years of banking.

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would really doubt ud be automatically dinged (plans always change and HR knows this and p sure they are concerned w kids delaying their grad date, not advancing it). with that said tho i want u to know that FT recruitment is painfully difficult and u shouldnt assume it will work out the way u want to.

best advice i can give you is base ur grad date off ur job. ultimately, thats the goal and job should be the priority and then u should make decisions. personally i wasnt in the same predicament as u, but i waited until i had offers (whether internship / FT) before i made any decisions on the school front in terms of my graduation.

 

Thanks. For the difficulty of FT, do you think it comes from networking, the difficulty of interview, or how unstructured/random the FT process would be? 

 

all the reasons u mentioned make FT harder, but i would say in my personal experience (this literal past FT cycle), i would say how random the process is what makes it difficult. interviews were substantially harder but still nothing you couldn't really ace with solid prep.

networking is not necessarily difficult but seems endless and hopeless because compared to SA where you network in advance and know apps for structured SA programs will open it seems like a very procedural thing whereas w/ FT it can seem endless. ur not really networking once an app opens b/c they stay open for no more than 2 weeks from what I saw and in those cases they almost always have a shortlist of candidates from internal referrals, etc. basically got to get lucky with someone u networked w that happens to have an opening in their group.

 

Thank you so much man will network in advance and get my techs down cold

 

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