Update: Admissions Results for Shitty WE, Good Raw Stats (y'all tore apart my profile. thanks for the brutally honest feedback)

Hi all, here's a follow-up to a profile review I gave a while back (shitty WE, good raw stats). Since I can't link my old posts, here's what I wrote: "So I graduated from UCLA with a Sociology degree, and got a 3.9 GPA. But I sucked terribly at networking and finding jobs, and I didn't have the most marketable degree. I worked in a dead-end retail job for 2 years (in Minneapolis), one year at an art museum, 1 year at a golf course, and one year as an administrative assistant/receptionist.

I got a 740 GMAT. I'm very academically smart, I'll give myself that. I'm thinking about maybe going to law school too to boost my earnings power given my high GPA. I was considering law school earlier, and got a 171 on the LSAT right out of undergrad. My manager said he's fine vouching for me and writing letters, and I'm a pretty good writer academically, so I could try to spin my story somehow, but idk."

Anyway, I got absolutely torn apart and destroyed on my MBA profile review on both WSO and reddit. Y'all said I'd make a terrible MBA applicant, that there's a very low chance I'd make M7/t15, and that even if I got into a t30 school, a pretty low chance I'd get a proper "t30-level" job with subpar WE. Y'all said you knew people who were dumber than me with way better jobs, and top MBAs would pick them in a heartbeat over me, and that I wasn't cut out for "business."

I was aiming for management consulting, preferably MBB but tier 2 or boutiques would be fine. Y'all said my WE was too shitty for that.

And honestly, I thank you all for that, and the brutally honest feedback. Way more useful than giving me false hope or wishful thinking.

For MBA apps here were my results: I got dinged w/o interview at Michigan Ross, NYU Stern, and UVA Darden. I got dinged w/ interview at UT Austin. I got into the last three I applied to though (Emory, USC, and Kelly). All fine schools, but not nearly as good as a t5 law school in terms of ROI imo. I didn't get any MBA scholarships.

However, I decided to not pursue the MBA route, and applied for a JD as well to see if I could do better there, like many of you suggested. I used my 171 LSAT Score from a few years back and 3.9 GPA to get into very topped ranked programs, including UPenn, Columbia, Berkeley, UVA, Cornell, and Duke, with decent scholarships from some. Got rejected from Harvard law, Stanford law, Yale law, and UChicago law.

I'm glad to be attending Columbia Law School next year (ranked 5th in the nation). I just wanted to appreciate the honest feedback many of you gave me, and telling me pursuing an MBA wouldn't make the most sense given my particular background. Even though many of you were critical of me and heavily tore apart my app, I really appreciate the "tough love," it helped me hone in what I really wanted to do.

My goal now is to do the best I can in law school and snag a $160,000 biglaw job in NYC. I also know some CLS people who went straight into MBB consulting, so that's an option too.

Thanks! Best of luck to all of you in your endeavors, MBA or otherwise :)