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could take less of a courseload one semester so u have some classes left for the fall semester of 2021 if you don't want to show a gap semester. You could also say financial reasons made you take a gap semester and just find an internship or something to keep you busy. This is how I was advised by people I networked with

 

That won't happen for a while I'm pretty sure but try to meet with an academic advisor and explain your plans as soon as possible to change your anticipated graduation date so you have your transcript ready when they request it

 
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Your resume would've said expected graduation in 2022 right? Key word: expected. Now, you can justify why you expected to graduated in 2022 however you want (within reason). Even if you just said you were, during recruiting, already planning to take a gap year I think that would be okay. Again, you never lied to the bank, you were indeed planning to graduate in 2022 - by tweaking your academic schedule, which no one asked you about.

Similar anecdote, BBs in HK often take masters students, so my friends in senior year would apply to summer programs, putting expected graduation in [1.5] years and justifying this during their interviews by saying "Oh I'm planning to do a masters degree". Note that at this point they haven't even applied yet. The banks take their word for it/don't care.

Either way, it's not a big deal - the bank likes you so they gave you an offer. Just explain why you had already planned to delay graduation when applying - and that's pretty easy to do with Covid these days.

 

Literally was in your shoes...worked at small place last summer, got offer, didn't want it, recruited late summer for BB, got it by writing "expected 2021" and then literally just haven't told them. No one's asked. Push comes to shove I'll say it was just some extra classes and ended up needing less than i thought i was going to and COVID online figured a waste blah blah.

In my experience, no one grilled me about it

Another friend of mine at a boutique did the same, came at the end of the summer and said "hey actually i can start FT now" and they liked him so they let him start in October. BB might be diff, too formal of a analyst class etc. but i know an analyst on my team and another friend who started in January bc they graduated early, so i assume u could do same when it comes to it

 

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