madammepsychosis wrote:
So what about law school GPA? I ended up having a better GPA in law school than my UGPA, mainly b/c I actually tried in law school. My law school GPA landed me in the top 5% of my graduating class, and I graduated with magna cum laude distinction, but my UGPA was much less respectable (3.5ish from large state university with poli sci major).
Probably depends heavily on the school you went to. If you went to a top 20 law school, graduating in the top 5% is really impressive. If you graduated in the top 5% at a less well known school, it may still help neutralize your undergrad GPA a bit, but probably not that much. It seems to me, though, your biggest challenge will be getting a really high quant and explaining convincingly why you want an MBA.
EDIT: Oh, you said you had a 3.5 GPA. That's really unlikely to hurt you. GPAs at business schools don't tend to be all that high (e.g. H=3.67), though at the top schools those relatively lower GPAs tend to be from the top undergraduate institutions. Still, the GPA thing is not going to be very concerning to the admissions people compared to the the worry about your reasons for going, your employability after, and your quantitative skills.