Despite the name, I’m an incoming analyst at a BB. How have people fared in going to law school after a short stint as an IB analyst? 1st, do you have to finish your two years? and second, is this experience looked upon favorably by law schools, maybe giving you a little nudge with your GPA and LSAT or do law schools prefer more humanities based work
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that entire thread basically rips apart the concept of going to law school after banking. I’m already committed to my banking job and am too late for starting law school this fall so might as well go to work for a year. just wanted to see how law schools perceive bankers.
Generally it's a positive. I know someone from my analyst class who did the same thing (applied after 2 years of banking) and got into HLS and SLS with a below average LSAT (not sure exactly what it was). You can apply whenever you want but law schools (and law firms) are pretty smart and know banking is a two year commitment so it's probably optimal to just finish your stint and then go. You'll save a little more $$ anyway and it gives you the option to consider on-cycle PE recruiting if you want to kick the can down the road a little further.
Why must you torture yourself like this? You’re stronger than Jesus Christ himself.
Every school admissions office will say their process is holistic bc that’s what is best for the admissions officer’s career. Nobody is going to say the process is robotic and a computer can do their job.
But the evidence is strong that law schools are pretty much all about GPA and LSAT. LSAC has a site where you type in your GPA/LSAT and it gives you odds at each school. If that’s not a signal of how formulaic they are, I don’t know what is. You could try it with different numbers and run a regression to see the correlation, I bet it’s sky high.
With GPA/LSAT being the vast majority of the game, that doesn’t leave room for much else and they still need to consider your quality of undergrad and your ethnicity. So I’d be super skeptical of any claims made about your work experience mattering to them.
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