An MBA or J.D. first?

bluedevilmike
Tue, 08 May 2007 16:16:48 +0000

Assuming that he has good reasons for wanting both, your resume looks a little bit sharper and your alumni network is (more or less) twice as large if you do them at different places.

For example, if somebody goes from Yale undergrad to Yale Law to Yale SOM, then he has something to talk about whenever he runs into a Yale alum of any kind. But if he goes from Princeton undergrad to Harvard Business to Yale Law, then he can have something to talk about with somebody who attended any of those three schools. “Oh, yeah, the law school’s across the river, but I used to study in the undergrad library all the time! No kidding!”