BreakOrDeath88

Which Graduate School?

fatjoe

ive liked northwestern's from what i saw. 3 years and your out

akafizzle

I'd say Harvard

Wildflower

I'd say the one you get accepted into.

As far as aiming, well, name matters. My favorites: Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Stanford. Mix and math as you please

Hanna

If you care about the firepower of both the JD and the MBA, then Stanford and Harvard are in a class by themselves. Penn's law school and Yale's MBA program don't have the same pull as Wharton and YLS.

sakky

Hey, if you're a true superstar, don't mess around. Construct an ad-hoc MBA/JD program where you get your MBA at HBS and your JD at Yale. That's what Lisa Schwartz did.

Best Joint MBA/JD Program?

fatjoe

Question about a join JD/MBA...

I understand that you have to get accepted to both schools of the institution that you want to apply to. However, do you need just an acceptable score on the MBA part or do you need a top of the line score.... Sounds confusing? let me give you an example

For example if i apply to Yale's JD/MBA program, i understand i need a 170-175 on the LSAT(rough estimate) to get in-- but do i also need whatever the equivalency of a LSAT score 170-175 is on the GMAT, or would I just need to get an average score

sakky

You would need to get whatever it would take to get into the Yale MBA program.

Keep in mind that MBA admissions consider numbers to be only a minor part of the process. Admissions mostly hinges on work experience and leadership abilities, as evidenced by essays, interview, rec's, etc. MBA programs reject plenty of people with stellar numbers but weaknesses in their work experience and leadership abilities. For example, a supergenius with perfect grades and test scores but with no social skills, no work experience, and no demonstrated ability to lead and inspire anybody is far more likely to get into a top law school than a top business school.

fatjoe

in a JD/MBA program, I understand they require you to take both the GRE and the LSAT. However Im wondering is the GMAT requirement lowered for kids who apply to the JD program

Greybeard

Your biz school application is considered separately from your law school application. I wouldn't expect either school to lower its standards by virtue of your application to a second professional school.

TheGirlsLoveMe

Did Lisa Schwartz go to both grad schools straight out of undergrad? Assuming that she did, don't top tier B-schools require 4-6 years of work experience?

Also, for such a program, would getting accepted to both schools ensure entrance to the joint degree program? Or do the programs only pick a select few from the people who made both schools?

beefs

Chicago?? I would think though im not sure.

Cmoss

are these worth it now a days to get? will graduates from a joint program have a much larger opportunity than those that have one degree or the other?

PimpDaddy1

For starters I'd say for the joint degree:
Harvard/Stanford >>>>>> UPenn/Chicago/Columbia > NYU/Yale

That being said, I'm debating adding the MBA on and I'm just having difficulty justifying it. Sure its only an extra year for a whole degree but law firms begin to question your dedication to the legal field and I would rather just clerk for a year instead.

Then again, you get to do a whole MBA with only an extra year (so a half price HBS/SBS/Wharton MBA!) and it surely would help for restructuring/bankruptcy or if you ever decide to jump into finance.

sakky

They do not. There are always a few people who get in every year who have precisely zero work experience.

Consider Chris Wilson-Byrne, who graduated from Boston College in 2007 and entered directly into Harvard Business School with precisely zero full-time work experience. Don't be fooled by the listing of Citigroup as his work experience, as that was his summer internship.

Chris Wilson-Byrne Profile - MBA - Harvard Business School