Should I be worried?

So basically I went to two high schools and and started attending the first high school in 8th, not 9th grade. Filling out the background check form thing for SA IBD, I did the dates wrong, pressed submit, and so it seems like there's a 1-yr gap in my HS education. Tried to follow up w/HR but they said they don't even have my file yet so the line automatically disconnected.

Should I be worried about this or not?

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Your high school education is so important to your future career in IBD that you should probably just drop out now and go run a Burger King. No, don't worry.

When you are great, people will often mistake candor for arrogance.
 

Burger King has actually been recruiting on target college campuses (Harvard, MIT, Chicago for sure) for it's management trainee program. The CEO/CFO are showing up for presentations.

Rumor has it the CEO bashed kids going into banking/consulting...

 

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