SA 2025 Graduating Early

I am an incoming SA 2025 and recruited where I was graduating in May 2026. However I have the option to graduate in Dec 2025 (3.5 semesters) or May 2024 (3 years). How do I communicate this to the bank and how do I start working ASAP assuming I get a full time offer. Reasons why I want to work ASAP is due to my family financial conditions and graduating early saves me a lot of money because my college is out of state (60k a year): Working at EB (healthcare coverage)

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It’s not hard - just tell HR directly after you get your return offer. 
 

That said, if you can pull it off I would highly recommend graduating early and the taking a few months off to go travel and see the world. You will never again have the perfect combination of youth, a job waiting for you, and hopefully a bit of cash in your pocket from the summer internship. Go backpack in Southeast Asia. Do Bike and Build. Hike in Nepal. You many never get the chance to do these things ever again but you will have a long time to work and make money. 

 

Thank you for the advice! I had a quick question though, considering the return offer is given near or at the end of the internship (please correct me if I am wrong), if I graduated in 3 years would the turn around time not be very quick, in terms of notifying HR? What about the exams I have to take?

 

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