Internships on application

How much would an undergrad internship, and hopefully a few years of experience, at Goldman Sachs help my chances of getting into Harvard/Columbia/NYU (JD, MBA, or both)? Is two years the standard amount of time to spend working after college before going to grad school?

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would help more for an MBA than for a JD. Even then, it's pretty typical of a lot of candidates.

Typically, a bunch of candidates do a 2year analyst program before b-school... but if you go to the b-school website, it will show you stats on how much FT experience those who were accepted have (I think 6 yrs is the average at most)

 

It really depends on the division, b/c if you aren't in the front office, it really isn't hard at all to get into Goldman. I'm curious about this question myself, but I would think that if your doing banking at Goldman, it'll say a lot about you on your resume regardless of your boards and GPA.

 

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