Actually posting this for my girlfriend. She is trying to decide whether or not to get her masters because she qualified for a lot of scholarship money so it would be cheap to do.
Stats:
Bachelors Finance from University of Cincinnati
GPA - 3.8
LSAT - 169 (second time)
ECs:
VP of UC Mock Trial for 3 years. Nationally ranked attorney and witness multiple times over.
Extensive experience working for multiple attorneys and firms around Cincinnati for years.
The questions I have are:
1. Would her chances at T14 improve with a masters in finance?
2. How applicable would a masters be if she wanted to get into M&A and Corporate Law?
3. What are her chances currently, realistically, at a T14 school?
She's a beautiful, tall, blonde white woman. I don't know if that helps or hurts.
Appreciate any input and thanks for taking the time!
Will my chances improve with a MS in Finance. Forum
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fratstar1
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Re: Will my chances improve with a MS in Finance.
MS in finance may negligibly help if it got you a good corporate job pre law school, which big law seems to like. I wouldnt get it just to get it. It would make more sense for her to get the best finance job possible w/the b.a. and work for a couple of years and then go to law school. You would get inherently the same benefit and not waste time/money.
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jbagelboy
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Re: Will my chances improve with a MS in Finance.
chances at a T14 right now are pretty strong. Probably could get some decent scholarship money at Duke/Cornell/Northwestern, and bites from UVA, Penn, Michigan, and NYU, but it will be prohibitively expensive.
MS in Fin would be a negligible to light soft, depending on where she earned it, and whether it fit into a schema of what she wanted to do in law. It's almost certainly not worth it. To give you an idea, one more point on the test - a 170 - would prove far more beneficial to her application.
Is your GF employed in finance? Work experience would help across the board.
MS in Fin would be a negligible to light soft, depending on where she earned it, and whether it fit into a schema of what she wanted to do in law. It's almost certainly not worth it. To give you an idea, one more point on the test - a 170 - would prove far more beneficial to her application.
Is your GF employed in finance? Work experience would help across the board.
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BigZuck
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Re: Will my chances improve with a MS in Finance.
Check http://www.mylsn.info for chances
Masters won't really matter, she shouldn't do it unless she's planning to put it to use. Would be a waste of time and money.
She should get a solid hot chick bump at OCI
Cool brag bro, good for you
Masters won't really matter, she shouldn't do it unless she's planning to put it to use. Would be a waste of time and money.
She should get a solid hot chick bump at OCI
Cool brag bro, good for you
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tennactitans
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Re: Will my chances improve with a MS in Finance.
BigZuck wrote: Cool brag bro, good for you
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