Hello. I am a junior at Northwestern University who will be working as an actuarial intern at a major insurance company this coming summer. However, I have a predicament. When I submitted my application (in October) I indicated that I was doubling majoring in mathematics and economics and was anticipating that I would graduate in June 2018 (after my senior year). I was offered a summer internship and accepted it (in November). However, since I applied, I have changed my mind and will be graduating at the end of THIS spring (after my junior year) with a mathematics major and an economics minor. I made this decision for a variety of reasons including that I found out that I will have enough credits to graduate early, I am tired of college, it will save money, and I don’t think that getting a double major will be much more useful than a major and minor.
Anyway, my dilemma is that in the job description one of the qualifications was “Expected graduation date between Dec. 2017 and June 2018”. I listed on my application that my expected graduation date was June 2018. I also listed that I was doing a double major on my application instead of a major and minor.
So my question is what would you recommend doing now? Should I inform my company about these changes? I am worried that if I do so it would violate my employment agreement and I would no longer be able to intern there. On the other hand, if I want to work there after my internship I am going to have to inform them that I graduated eventually. Also, I may have to ask off for a day from my internship to attend my graduation commencement ceremony.
Technically when I applied for the position, everything on my resume was accurate, I was anticipating graduating in June 2018 and was in the university system as pursuing a double major. So legally I’m not sure that my company would be able to charge me with a fraudulent application anyway. Additionally, I don’t think they would be likely to cancel my internship at this point as things are already in motion and I don’t see why the company would give a darn that I graduated early anyway.
To conclude, what would you recommend doing in my position? Any advice is welcome. Thanks.