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Hello all, all this extra time due to quarantine has given me some time to think about my future (thanks Corona), and my post grad options as I round out my junior year at my Ivy League school. I'm starting to think about grad school, particularly law school and business school. I took a class last semester on anti-corruption in the international financial system and it really inspired me. I even wrote a 30 page brief on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and its effectiveness in stopping corruption and malpractice in multinational corporations. Would a joint MBA/JD from a school like Columbia (top choice), Harvard, Penn, or Stanford be good for getting into anti-corruption/compliance law?

info about me:
Junior at an Ivy League School (one of the "big three" Harvard, Yale, Princeton)

major: in Political Science/Middle East Studies, Certificate (read: Minor) in Arabic

GPA: 3.71 (hope to graduate with 3.75-3.78ish)

URM (Black)

LSAT : haven't taken it yet, but hoping for above 170

Work experience:

this summer I am working in investment banking at BB bank (thing Goldman, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley)

Previous summer worked at Middle East Policy think tank in Washington DC

Other:
Speak fluent Arabic

traveled extensively in the Middle East via various scholarships from the U.S. State Department for the study of Arabic (Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon)

So would I be competitive for any of the schools for a joint JD/MBA. Does that even really make sense for my goals, or would just law school/just business school be a better choice? Thanks for your feedback.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most of these schools require work experience before matriculating as an MBA? And don't most require separate admission to both the law school and business school?

If that is the case for each school, you'll also need a GMAT or GRE score and a plan for getting work experience before starting the JD/MBA. Your chances as a straight-through applicant to a program that requires post-undergrad work experience are basically zero, with or without the right numbers.

- MBA doesn't add much value for your goals; in fact Yale Law would be noticeably better than any of those JD/MBA programs for your apparent goal of working at the policymaking level.

- If you want to prove your financial chops I'd just do the IB think for a couple of years, which would increase, instead of decrease, your net worth, and also help you gauge whether you actually need/want an MBA.

- If you are looking at JD/MBA programs, it makes no sense to leave Kellogg and Booth off your list.

- You should take a very hard look at Stanford's Knight-Hennessy program if you haven't already.

- Your LSAT is pretty much the whole story behind your chances at all of these law schools. The break-points are fuzzier for URM admissions but the 170-173 area would make a lot of good things happen with your GPA and softs.