TheTwinAndreBen
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Not really. But there is a tipping point depending on how much you make vs how much you owe. Working for likely less than 60k a year for 10 years is going to put a decent damper on your future.
All I said was that taking advantage of loan forgiveness limits your job opportunities. That is as true now as it was 7 years ago.
Got in to Columbia with my 171/3.6 so must really be a down year for applications #humblebrag
Congratulations. That's one of those places still worth going to.
Thanks, I was pretty ecstatic when I got the letter for that exact reason. Makes me feel a lot better about my decision to go to law school
I enjoy being a lawyer and am glad that I went to law school and got my LLM in tax. However, the tax side of estate planning has changed so much from the time that I started law school (and I seriously doubt the it will go back) that I'm wondering if I want to move more towards tax controversy work.
Should I do this duel mba program? Trying to decide its a sham.
Should I do this duel mba program? Trying to decide its a sham.
Depends on what you want to do? My 3 buddies who have done it have had some great successes.
I'd like to hear stories of dual MBA success. My gf is in the process of getting a JD-MBA and she has found it very frustrating. Personally, I think it is a sham. I don't think anyone should be admitted to an MBA program, dual or otherwise, without job experience. In my opinion, if it is law you want to do primarily, then it is not a huge leg-up. If you want to do business primarily, then you fall into a frustrating no-mans land where you don't quite fit the easy check-list of what a lot of employers seem to be looking for (assuming you went straight from undergrad to law school with a liberal arts degree and no real job experience). So if you do it, know what kind of jobs you are looking for and how you are going to tailor your pitch for how your dual degree and experience is going to add value. Now, if you are a smart guy and you kill it in either of your law or MBA program, doors will open no matter what. If you are getting grades in the fat part of the bell curve then I am not sure adding more years and more debt to get an additional degree is desirable.
2 are in investment banking and the JD gave them a bump up in management levels.
1 is a business/corporate attorney
All 3 had connections and used their extra years of schooling to network.
I've said it before on this thread, but anybody in a dual degree program immediately gets axed from my OCI interview resume list at the same time people with awful grades get axed. Two primary reasons: (A) if you don't know with as much certainty as possible that you want to actually be a lawyer, then I'm not hiring you to pay you figure that out; and (B) I'm not going to spend a shit ton of money and time training you for a few years, only to have you jump in house or to the business world when you finally start becoming productive and useful.