I will be a senior next year in undergrad, but am fairly sure that I will grad transfer and do a 1-year masters program afterward. This won’t be finalized until later this year, so should I apply to SA 24 positions now (as I would have next summer before masters program)? Or would I not be considered since my status for the summer is uncertain?
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Yes you will be batched with SA24 for FT start so you need to recruit RN
My question really is whether I would be considered given that I haven’t formally committed to a school or program. In their eyes, they might think I’ll decide against it/won’t get in/etc, and maybe not end up in a masters program, so I’m not what they’re looking for
Basically, is specifying on my resume that I’m planning to do an extra year of school enough to be batched in with SA24
Yes just claim that you are doing it. No one asks questions and the only thing you have to get through is a background check. Third party agents will just try to confirm if you truly did attend the schools you listed on your resume and call your past employers to verify your work sates. Thats it
You'll have to put a 2025 grad date to qualify / not be auto-dinged. I assume you're an athlete given grad transfer wording - I would put an undergrad date of 2025. Typically not a good idea to flex like this but this is a unique enough situation I think you'll be fine given athlete
Yea I have no interest in flexing or anything like that. Just know that by the time I have everything figured out, SA openings will have been long filled. Feels like there’s a fine line between “lying” about undergrad 2025 and writing my intentions, but have to get around the auto-ding above all I guess.
There's not really a box on the applications to explain the masters thing, and until you have a grad school picked I don't think there's a clean way to say it on the resume. If it helps I don't think this is really lying, you fully intend to start working in 2025 and just need to iron out the athletics situation.
Doesn’t feel entirely right to write undergrad 2025, but obv get dinged without it most likely. Best to maybe write undergrad 2025 and a note below very quickly explaining situation? Won’t be picked up by screeners but a person reading might see
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