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($) The joint MBA/Master’s app including JD/MBA: How do the schools decide?

July 10, 2018 by EssaySnark - Discusses HKS, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Kellogg Leave a Comment

As a follow-on to yesterday’s post on joint MBA + Master’s programs and is it easier to get in, here are some specifics on how things are evaluated. Most universities handle admissions separately for each of their schools. It’s like each school — the business school, the law school — is operating individually within the […]

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Filed Under: JD/MBA, Master's programs, planning your strategy Bschools: HKS, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Kellogg

($) The joint-degree “MBA+” application strategy

July 13, 2017 by EssaySnark - Discusses HKS 2 Comments

With the proliferation of specialized master’s and new application options, more and more bschool applicants are being enticed to expand their horizons and try for simultaneous degrees. There have long been available certain specialized combinations that were geared towards specific industries or tracks, including the MBA / MPH (Master’s in Public Health) or the MBA […]

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Filed Under: JD/MBA, Master's programs Bschools: HKS

($) If you thought you’d go to law school and now…

April 21, 2016 by EssaySnark

We spoke previously about how some grad school go-ers may have been switching in the past ten years from an interest in law school to an interest in business school. What if you’re that person? Over the years we have worked with a wide range of BSers, including quite a few who went for the...


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Filed Under: GMAT/GRE, JD/MBA, law Tagged With: law school

Are all the wanna-be lawyers trying for bschool instead?

April 14, 2016 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

You may have heard the news that over the past several years, interest in law school has tanked in this country. According to a 2015 Bloomberg article, app volumes for a three-year JD degree are at 15-year lows . Here’s the chart they posted based on data from the Law School Admissions Council: The type […]

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Filed Under: general snark, JD/MBA, law Tagged With: law school, trends

($) Joint-degree MBA options.

July 24, 2014 by EssaySnark

They’re breeding like rabbits. Business schools everywhere are popping out more and more joint degree and dual degree options. You can get your MBA and… Get a master’s in Electrical Engineering at Stanford – just announced this year. Get a law degree in just three years at many schools like Wharton/Penn Law, Columbia Bschool/Columbia Law,...


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Filed Under: application rounds, flavors of MBA, JD/MBA

Considering law school instead?

October 16, 2012 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

OK OK so we know this is a bschool blahg — but we stumbled across this awhile back and couldn’t resist posting it for you: As a law school professor, I can’t stress enough how time-consuming and stressful law school is. You will not get to spend any time with your child for those three […]

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Filed Under: JD/MBA, tuition Tagged With: law school

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