SA 25 looking bleak -- Is this a bad choice?

As the title states, my chances right now for SA25 are looking bleak. There are a couple of reasons for this but most of it just comes down to poor networking etc.

For background, I go to a non-target, with a 4.0 and majoring in finance. I got a sophomore IB internship (2023) summer at a no-name boutique. I then "delayed" my graduation in an attempt to recruit for bigger banks for SA 25, and redo my sophomore summer. So in the past few months, I've applied to every bank on the street, been rejected a bunch, and honestly, I just don't have high hopes for landing something for SA25.


So, fast forward to today, I landed another internship in banking for this summer at another small boutique (~35 bankers), for this summer, 2024.


Would it be a bad idea for me to just work my ass off, "undelay" my graduation, and apply for FT 25, leveraging my sophomore and junior IB internships? Would the banks that I applied to see my SA25 application, and reject me? Is full-time THAT much harder?

Any advice is appreciated...

 

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