Gap semester/year for health problems
Am a transfer to a semi-target (ross, stern, gtown), transferred from major completely unrelated to finance so already well behind majority of peers.
However, dealing with a relatively bad back injury (~1 year), chronic pain when sitting, basically impossible to be "completely" focused. If I were to quantify it, I would I'm capped at 70% of my maximum capability. Want to take a semester off to completely dial in on rehab/explore surgery. Is this suicide in terms of timelines, struggling to figure out if its worth the tradeoff.
How would recruiting look like if I were to take a gap semester, and at that point would it just be more worth to take a whole year off to align myself with timelines.
Sorry to hear about your back issues. I had a herniated disc that caused pain / sciatica for nearly two years where I also couldn't sit in a chair for more than like 10 minutes, so I know how miserable and hopeless it can make you feel after even just a week let alone a year of chronic pain. You should definitely look into therapy and get an MRI if you aren't sure what exactly what the issue is. I was skeptical of therapy for treating chronic pain but after a year of pain I was desperate and it actually helped alleviate my pain and get me back to lifting and living a normal life again. Look into therapy and also check out 'back mechanic' by Stuart McGill as well as lowbackability on instagram. these were great resources for me. I would do everything you can to avoid surgery, back surgeries seem to not help a lot of people and sometimes even complicate the issue.
Now to answer your question, I think you should try to rehab while continuing school to graduate on time (trust me I can empathize with how difficult that seems right now), but if you think a semester off will give you the time to really focus on therapy and get back to good health, I don't think it's the end of the world. I know a few people who took on a minor closer to graduation just to get an extra fall semester in order to have another shot at landing IB internships in the summer before they graduated. Now if you graduate in the winter and don't start a full time role until summer you will have 6 months off to do nothing probably, which can be a great time to do some traveling or pursue some hobbies if you have the money because you will maybe never get that chance again until you're too old to really enjoy it anyway.
Thanks for the response, very insightful. Had an MRI done over the summer and concluded it was a herniated disc, tried out PT and McGill's techniques but none of it seemed to help at all. Tapped into lowbackability and seem to making some sort of progress now though, also have an epidural scheduled this upcoming week so leaning towards staying in school but with a lessened courseload.
Really nice to hear that you've been able to succeed despite going through the same thing.
What year are you? What was your previous planned graduation date and what is your revised projected graduation date?
Am a sophomore, planned to graduate spring 27, but was looking to delay that to either fall 27 or even spring 28.
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