Goes without saying, but be brutally honest. When is it fair to update my resume? (TL;DR at bottom)
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No, you shouldn't put a school you haven't attended on your resume. You will be embarrassed when someone who went to that school inevitably asks you stuff about it that you can't answer and you're liable to get an offer rescinded if HR finds out you don't go there. Who transfers their junior spring anyways?
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Appreciate the feedback. Let me ask you this: Say I get accepted by a school tomorrow and decide that is where I am going to go. I have a place to stay and am for sure going to attend. I can't register for classes or anything like that until January, but I will be going there. Can I put it on the resume at that point? It's not like I am going to claim that I have been attending the school. It will be clear that I will be starting there in the spring. I am not trying to be deceitful by putting it. I just want them to know that I have been accepted and will be attending the school.
I'm not really interested in getting into all the details about why I am transferring so late. I was planning to transfer after sophomore year (and wish I would have), but wanted to get my GPA up a little more and shoot for a better school. It's not all too uncommon to transfer 2 years in if that is your plan (although it is probably pretty uncommon for people on this site). I know you don't care and that your question was rhetorical, so it doesn't matter.
I'll admit I asked a poorly worded, dumb question. I know the best thing would be to actually have moved in and been to class and everything at the school, but if I don't have to wait until January to apply, then I would rather not. So let me ask you this: Say I get accepted by a school tomorrow and decide that is where I am going to go. I have a place to stay and am for sure going to attend. I can't register for classes or anything like that until January, but I will be going there. Can I put it on the resume at that point? It's not like I am going to claim that I have been attending the school. It will be clear that I will be starting there in the spring. I am not trying to be deceitful by putting it. I just want them to know that I have been accepted and will be attending the school.
I apologize for being so wordy. This is essentially my only resource at this point in time really to figure this kind of stuff out. I don't have an adviser or anything to answer this stuff. I know it is an unusual scenario, but any little thing will help me at this point.
No its like junior putting " incoming summer analysts" but you still wouldn't put it on your resume till you actually work
I see what you're saying. Now of course I want it to be an acceptable thing to do, so I am seeing a lot of gray area. I also don't know the specifics of how resumes are reviewed. These two are rather different scenarios in my eyes. They're both for resumes, but one is employment and one is education. I agree you shouldn't add a position you have not started yet, because you have not started, so you have not learned anything. You probably aren't going to be applying for jobs right before starting a new one. Either way it shouldn't be on there. For education, I would see it as an issue if I added classes I have not finished to relevant coursework or something like that. I see it the same as people putting their expected graduation year. They have not yet earned their degree, but that is when are expecting to receive it. Who knows maybe something happens and they graduate the following semester or not at all. In my case I would be putting it on there with absolute certainty that I will be attending starting January 2018. I would imagine that someone reading a resume would look at education and see what the school is, when the applicant attended or until when they plan to attend and what GPA the applicant earned. In my case I would list both of my schools. Showing that I will stop attending school A in December of 2017 and will be starting at school B in January of 2018. I'm not claiming that I currently attend or have been attending this school. I definitely am seeing both sides of the argument. I know I am already in the minority. Do you have any advice as to how I could/if I should incorporate it into my cover letter or something like that?
You need to learn to write less. Sometimes less is more.
There really isn't two sides to the argument. There is only one answer and the other one is you trying to persuade yourself/us that putting it on your resume is okay. Also, if you're gunning for IB SA most positions BB/EB/MM(reputable ones) slots are all full anyways and by the time you apply (next summer) for FT you'll have a semester under your belt so it won't matter.
For boutiques you'll be able to explain your situation during cold email/cold call or even your cover letter so it won't matter. In your cover letter I would briefly mention it in the first paragraph when you're introducing yourself.
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