I will be interested to hear what the Bowdoin career center says.
His summer 2023 internship will be his junior year internship…because he won’t have junior standing in summer of 2022 (which many of the consulting (big 4, mbb, etc.) internships require…talking about the ones that often come with a job offer upon completion).
If he does get an offer from his summer 2023 internship, he obviously can ask if he could start in January…it’s probably going to depend on the firm at that point because I do agree with publisher that many firms want their incoming class to start together for training purposes, rotations, and such.
As long as he continues to get good internship experience he will have opportunities…it’s probably fair to say more starting in June 2024, but I think it’s possible he can find something to start Jan 2024.