Does an Extra Year/Semester Impact Return Offers?

I currently have an offer for the summer of 2019, but I am considering staying on for an extra semester of school (so instead of graduating in May 2020, I would graduate in December 2020). Does anyone have know if these firms would still consider extending a return offer, or would the extra semester force me to recruit again for FT jobs?

 
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I'm also going to be an SA this summer (2018) and was thinking of trying to do the same thing, but ultimately decided it would probably be a bad idea to even ask the firm about it. Think about it - they structure recruiting based on graduation dates, and they recruited you for this SA position on the assumption of a May 2020 graduation. Recruiting numbers are determined based on anticipated firm needs - they recruited X number of 2019 SA's because they anticipate needing X number of FT analysts beginning in the summer of 2020. Why would they offer a return to someone who can't start until December when there's a million other highly qualified candidates who'd be ready to start in the summer? I don't think its worth it, but if you really want to, I'd think about a very tactful way to bring it up with HR or better yet, run it by a close friend in the firm and see what he or she thinks.

 

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