MBAji wrote:
Thanks Jennifer. Much appreciated.
Can I please ask you one other thing just so that I work harder on the essays with the right focus? what do you mean by: "significant strategic impact"?
[I know someone who attended one of Columbia/Wharton/Chicago in the last 3-4 years straight out my law school in India after ~3 years of work ex in India at a law firm. Except a higher gmat score, lack of an LLM and lack of international experience in his case, our profiles would mostly be the same. The only way to qualify as a NY lawyer, and thereby have access to more sophisticated firms and transactions, for someone who doesn't hold a US JD is to do a US LLM. I am only mentioning this to add a few more details to try and give a clearer picture].
Thanks again.
The LLM is exactly the issue: you've pursued this extra degree and need to make a compelling argument as to why you need another one (the MBA). Without the LLM, making that argument would have been easier (since you didn't have access to the US legal positions that you now do).
Please note that I am not saying that you do not stand a chance at Wharton (or elsewhere); I'm just trying to show you what weaknesses you need to address. In your case, you need to be very clear why a full-time MBA, now, makes sense. That seems to me to be a hard argument to make.