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Re: Please evaluate my profile
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12 Mar 2012, 23:45
Please don't tell me you want to go into finance (banking, private equity, etc.) - it seems like 90-99% of lawyers who apply to b-school are looking to go into finance, and for many cynical adcoms it looks like a money grab and nothing more. Not saying that that's why you'd do it (if indeed it's for finance), but that's how many adcoms will perceive it.
Anyhow, to be honest it's going to be a big stretch. For top schools, the small handful of ex-lawyers tend to have strong blue chip backgrounds (top 10 law schools) and worked at the big law firms (or they worked in entertainment/sports, etc). And even then, amongst this pool they still have a tough time (especially at HBS). It has nothing to do with ability - but that they are just wary of the signal it sends when a lawyer applies to b-school (after spending 3 years in grad school, pass the bar, work as a lawyer -- applying to b-school signals "burnout" to an adcom).
Probably not what you want to hear - but if you do apply, just know that it's going to be tough to get in.
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