Lawyer to MBA (low GPA)
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Updated on: 01 Mar 2021, 10:27
Hi! I apologize if this is not the right place to post this, but I would highly appreciate your advice
I’m a Spanish lawyer (Female, 28 yo) with over six years of experience in M&A, business operations and corporate law. I have been working for only two months now as the sole in-house lawyer of an Spanish high-growth fintech startup and prior to that I worked as a senior business lawyer for a UK listed law firm, providing legal advice to startups and VC funds.
I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from #1 law school in Spain (approx. 2.6 US GPA, but not sure) and two LLMs, one from my same undergrad school (3.3 GPA), and one from ESADE (2.8 GPA).
I am really interested in shifting careers and would love to move to business development / operations roles, specially within a high-growth startup in US, and would like to found my own startup/company in a few years from now. This is why I decided I wanted to pursue an MBA, and was looking initially at European MBAs, but since I’m moving with my partner to Washington DC I have been considering Georgetown McDonough or UVA Darden FT MBA.
My question is, do I even have a chance getting into these schools given my low GPAs? I got a 700 in GMAT but I believe this is not enough to offset my low GPs. My other question is, should I consider other more “non-traditional” MBAs if I’m not interested in following the typical consulting / IB career after graduation? I was thinking perhaps in Babson FT MBA.
Any kind of advice / suggestion, would be highly appreciated
Thank you for your time!!
Originally posted by
sfhmr on 27 Feb 2021, 10:26.
Last edited by
sfhmr on 01 Mar 2021, 10:27, edited 1 time in total.