3 or 4 years Dilemma

Hey Monkeys, Long time lurker here, so I'm currently a student at a no-name school, guaranteed none of you have heard of it no alums in banking. In high school, I took a lot of AP classes and came to my current school with the option of graduating in 3 years which I decided to pursue, realized I enjoyed IB and cold-called like there was no tomorrow, miraculously I got a position at a mid-tier BB and know I will be placed in one of the worse groups that are known to pigeonhole analysts for next summer. So I was previously planning to graduate in 2022 but now am thinking I want to spend an extra year in school as I will most likely be online for this next semester. Should I stick with my 3-year path to avoid losing the offer assuming I get the return offer and start in 2022? Or should I recruit for 2022 SA positions next year and the BB finding out? My one main question is coming from a complete non-core will EBs and top BBs give me real looks having a BBIBD on my resume, and could BB find out and pull my offer?

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Is the group really that bad? If it’s at a bulge bracket it can’t be too terrible.

 

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