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28 year old white male
GMAT: 740
Undergrad GPA: 3.3
Other Education: JD from top 20 law school 3.7gpa (top 20% of class)
Reseach experience:
basic adacemic research experience in the biotech field from pre-law school days.
Work Experience:
3rd year associate at top-100 law firm. have been working mostly on corporate/securities law issues and fairly ordinary transactional
work in the firms private equity division.
Reason for MBA:
After several years of being on the legal side of the financial industry I have a burning desire to get into private equity on the business
side of things
Target Schools:
MIT
Columbia
NYU
Northwestern
Yale
Wharton
Duke
Dartmouth
Thank you.
GMAT: 740
Undergrad GPA: 3.3
Other Education: JD from top 20 law school 3.7gpa (top 20% of class)
Reseach experience:
basic adacemic research experience in the biotech field from pre-law school days.
Work Experience:
3rd year associate at top-100 law firm. have been working mostly on corporate/securities law issues and fairly ordinary transactional
work in the firms private equity division.
Reason for MBA:
After several years of being on the legal side of the financial industry I have a burning desire to get into private equity on the business
side of things
Target Schools:
MIT
Columbia
NYU
Northwestern
Yale
Wharton
Duke
Dartmouth
Thank you.
02 Jan 2011, 14:10
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Adcoms tend to have mixed feelings about lawyers.
Even if they feel that you have the quant abilities, it's rarely a question of ability or talent, but one of attitude.
Lawyers applying to b-school have a reputation for being jaded, cynical, burnt out professionals - and regardless of how smart one is, it's hard to want someone like that in a classroom. Also, note that while there aren't boatloads of lawyers applying, those who apply have virtually the same narrative as you:
Corporate lawyer who wants to work in finance (banking, PE, HF, VC, etc). With this kind of narrative, adcoms will assume you are that jaded, cynical, burnt out lawyer who wants to get into finance because if you're working crappy hours now, you might as well get paid multiples of what you are paid now. So in other words, the change is for cynical reasons - i.e. that you are more interested in getting *out* of law than you are interesting in getting *into* business.
Yes, there's a handful of lawyers in any b-school classroom, but the key is convincing the adcom that you aren't the burnt out lawyer, but someone whose interest in business far exceeds his/her abhorrence for the law.
In your case, it probably doesn't make sense to look beyond the top 16 schools, but at the same time, there aren't really any safeties for you within the top 16 - you'll be a bit of a wild card at any of the top schools.
Even if they feel that you have the quant abilities, it's rarely a question of ability or talent, but one of attitude.
Lawyers applying to b-school have a reputation for being jaded, cynical, burnt out professionals - and regardless of how smart one is, it's hard to want someone like that in a classroom. Also, note that while there aren't boatloads of lawyers applying, those who apply have virtually the same narrative as you:
Corporate lawyer who wants to work in finance (banking, PE, HF, VC, etc). With this kind of narrative, adcoms will assume you are that jaded, cynical, burnt out lawyer who wants to get into finance because if you're working crappy hours now, you might as well get paid multiples of what you are paid now. So in other words, the change is for cynical reasons - i.e. that you are more interested in getting *out* of law than you are interesting in getting *into* business.
Yes, there's a handful of lawyers in any b-school classroom, but the key is convincing the adcom that you aren't the burnt out lawyer, but someone whose interest in business far exceeds his/her abhorrence for the law.
In your case, it probably doesn't make sense to look beyond the top 16 schools, but at the same time, there aren't really any safeties for you within the top 16 - you'll be a bit of a wild card at any of the top schools.
