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Nobody will give a fuck about your perspective. You will look like any other washed out resume padding pre-med who couldn't cut it. Maybe it is time to show some results before doing yet another degree.

 

Don't go to law school unless you want to be a lawyer. The # of attorneys who successfully lateral into IB these days from BigLaw is so miniscule that your judgment will be questioned for staking 300K on the possibility. Also, grades matter in law school, and they're mostly unpredictable, so if you somehow finish below median outside of YHSCC your opportunities will be significantly curbed.

MBA business schools ">M7 hit rate for IB is somewhere north of 70% assuming you're not completely inept.

 

Various reasons. Some are internationals with serious language/cultural issues, some just didn't brush up enough because they believed the hype about how easy it is to get an offer (it's "easy" IF you're well-prepared), some recruit for other stuff and aren't completely focused, and some have horrible social skills or neglect to impress at any networking functions.

 

You can get an IB job from any MBA business schools">M7 if you try (join the club, learn your technicals, actively pursue networking). Like, at every MBA business schools">M7, almost everyone who wants an IB job gets one. They might not get as great a bank they want, but they will get something unless there's a personal or interview issue. If that issue exists, it doesn't matter where you go to school.

However, based on what you put here I don't really understand how you expect to crack the MBA business schools">M7, so it's moot.

 

Don't go straight to an MBA program with no work experience. I'd say try to work in healthcare for 2 years or so, then start applying to MBA business schools ">M7 programs and try to get into a healthcare investment banking group.

It's the path of least resistance and you won't get a lot of questions about why such a sudden switch if you're trying to cover the industry you worked in.

 

My two cents - two years of work experience (lab or corporate) will be a very tough sell to an admissions committee, especially amongst the MBA business schools ">M7. I agree with chihuahua that doing another two years of work in a more traditional setting would greatly increase your chances of admission, as well as with banking interviews. The classmates that I saw struggle the most with recruiting were those who didn't have any sort of business background. Having done lab work myself in a prior life, its application to MBA classes and investment banking is a stretch.

 

If you can get into MBA business schools ">M7, then getting a IB associate job shouldn't be too hard. The placements rates for those programs (as well ones outside of M7) are pretty high, as long as you're open to a variety of banks (i.e. not just the top 3-4 or whatever). You'll get some understanding of the industry and fundamental knowledge through classes and build a network. It's almost all career switchers anyways, so targeting healthcare groups from a science background isn't uncommon.

I guess the difficult part is actually getting into a top program with limited work experience. If you can craft a story / have the right set of quantitative aspects for your application, then go for it. Definitely an easier path than detouring into law.

 

Thanks man for that advice. It was good to know. Thanks a lot, it has motivated me. I just want to be sure that I have a good shot before investing resources into the admission process. I think I can get a good GMAT; I have work experience, but in labs, not in corporate.

 

Yeah I mean I'd agree that it is fairly straightforward to land an IB gig, although there are some meaningful differences across the MBA business schools ">M7. Frankly I think you place better into consulting than banking, but assuming you are actually dead set on banking (and you understand what the role entails), then you should be able to land a summer somewhere. It will be up to you to hustle that summer and get the full time offer but it seems like you're adequately motivated to do that.

I would just really recommend meditating on why you want banking post-MBA in the first place. I just went to my five year b-school reunion. There are VERY few bankers left from our class, despite probably close to 30% going into IB initially. The one's who are still doing banking didn't look particularly happy about it.

 

Thanks a lot to you and everyone else for the help and advice. I went over to GMAT fourm, and asked for my chances. I have a good chance at M14, they said, not so much at the MBA business schools ">M7 b/c of short work experience. I'm looking at Yale and NYU now. Thanks everyone once again

 

I have worked in a lab, and I have worked in investment banking. Nothing that I learned in the lab was applicable to being a better investment banker.

Having a biomedical engineering degree and working in a lab helped me develop my scientific vocabulary, and I can listen to a pitch about a life sciences firm and not have my eyes glaze over. I believe that my experience has set me up so that I can now ask better questions, and from those I'll get more out of my experiences over the next decade.

But, sincerely, I would say there is zero carryover in skills from lab grunt to IB analyst. Zero.

"Son, life is hard. But it's harder if you're stupid." - my dad
 

Dude, just make up your mind already. Didn't you make a few postings about JD/MBA, IB, etc.?

Will MBA business schools ">M7 get you to IB? Very likely. Will you get accepted to M7? We don't know. Will you be able to get into IB assuming that you get accepted to M7? We don't know.

The answer is we don't fucking know since we don't know who you are in this anonymous forum, and we sure don't know how admission committees in MBA or JD or interviewers in IB think. Seems like you only listen to what you want to hear but fight with those who say what you don't want to hear.

At the end of the day, you need to get your shit straight and start prepping for whatever YOU think is best to get into IB. I think you had more than enough solid information from this forum while cussing at people.

 

No brah I'm listenig to all advice. Iw as first thinking of law, but b/c of the adbice, I'm looking at MBA now. First it was MBA business schools ">M7, but after I checked out my chances, I'm looking at M14. Thanks to all for the advice.

 

Unless you are a complete social moron you will 100% get a IB job from an MBA business schools ">M7. First of all its pretty easy period for anyone that puts in the work. Second your story is such an easy sell. Really liked biotech/hc....blah blah blah...become interested in the business side...blah blah blah...went to bschool to learn finance...blah blah blah...want to do biotech/HC banking. If you can't sell that story you'd be a bad banker anyway, so worst case scenario you're lose out on a job you'd be bad at regardless. That said, I think you'll be alright.

 

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