American JD/MBA Student Here

aclegt

你好，我是美国人， 我学习 MBA & JD

Hello everyone, I'm an American student studying getting an MBA and JD at a Boston school (not Harvard, haha). I have just started learning Chinese, but unfortunately it will take me a long time before I can write this whole post in Chinese .

I just want to introduce myself, and I want to see if there's any Boston JD students (or MBA students) reading this either here now, or people who are going to be in the future. I welcome you to the United States!

sdcar2010

你好，我是美国人， 我学习 MBA & JD

Hello everyone, I'm an American student studying getting an MBA and JD at a Boston school (not Harvard, haha). I have just started learning Chinese, but unfortunately it will take me a long time before I can write this whole post in Chinese .

I just want to introduce myself, and I want to see if there's any Boston JD students (or MBA students) reading this either here now, or people who are going to be in the future. I welcome you to the United States!

-- by 会员 aclegt (2011/4/21 3:51:11)

No picture? No truth!

日落归田园

哈哈 JD和MBA我以为只有Stanford, Northwestern, Harvard和Upenn有

平林新月

你好，我是美国人， 我学习 MBA & JD

Hello everyone, I'm an American student studying getting an MBA and JD at a Boston school (not Harvard, haha). I have just started learning Chinese, but unfortunately it will take me a long time before I can write this whole post in Chinese .

I just want to introduce myself, and I want to see if there's any Boston JD students (or MBA students) reading this either here now, or people who are going to be in the future. I welcome you to the United States!

-- by 会员 aclegt (2011/4/21 3:51:11)

Cute, a gringo shows up! Guys, let's say welcome. BTW, is there an all-in-English version Chasedream too? Otherwise how can you find here. So suspicious.

aclegt

There is no English language version of Chasedream as far as I know (if I'm wrong, please post a link, haha). A Chinese friend told me about it. It's the internet: not difficult to find things, haha.

Why do you guys seem so suspicious? If you can learn English and use English websites, certainly people from other countries will do the same for Chinese, haha.


(P.S. don't use the term gringo, it's not a good word)

kaiyuyan

hey, i wonder the advantage of JD&MBA when try to find a job.
How much it will cost per year? What's the requirement if i try to apply it?

aclegt

Normally, the JD is 3 years and the MBA is 2 years. If you get the JD/MBA at most schools, the whole thing is compressed to 4 years (including a summer or two). So you would pay an extra year of tuition (and tuition for JD and MBA is usually high, unfortunately, can be about $40,000-50,000 per year before living expenses).

Requirements: For me, I originally just wanted to go to law school (JD), so I applied through that (took LSAT and applied to law schools through that LSDAS thing). After I got in, I applied to the MBA during my first year of law school. Our program had a rule that if your LSAT score was in the top 25%, you didn't have to take the GMAT to apply for the MBA as a dual degree, so I was able to just apply and get it. But for other schools, I'm not sure, so you may have to take both the GMAT and the LSAT (but much of the studying can be used for both, especially the English). The JD and MBA admit you separately, so you have to meet both of their requirements.

As for job prospects, well "I'll tell you in a few years" haha. The current economy makes it harder for anyone to find a top job. Having a JD/MBA gives you a definite advantage I think, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra 2 years of time and money. For certain things (like consulting, or being a corporate lawyer) I think it's especially helpful, but for otherwise pure MBA jobs or pure JD jobs, I don't know how much of an advantage it would give you. As for me, I don't yet know whether it will help me enough to be worth it or not.

kaiyuyan

Normally, the JD is 3 years and the MBA is 2 years. If you get the JD/MBA at most schools, the whole thing is compressed to 4 years (including a summer or two). So you would pay an extra year of tuition (and tuition for JD and MBA is usually high, unfortunately, can be about $40,000-50,000 per year before living expenses).

Requirements: For me, I originally just wanted to go to law school (JD), so I applied through that (took LSAT and applied to law schools through that LSDAS thing). After I got in, I applied to the MBA during my first year of law school. Our program had a rule that if your LSAT score was in the top 25%, you didn't have to take the GMAT to apply for the MBA as a dual degree, so I was able to just apply and get it. But for other schools, I'm not sure, so you may have to take both the GMAT and the LSAT (but much of the studying can be used for both, especially the English). The JD and MBA admit you separately, so you have to meet both of their requirements.

As for job prospects, well "I'll tell you in a few years" haha. The current economy makes it harder for anyone to find a top job. Having a JD/MBA gives you a definite advantage I think, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra 2 years of time and money. For certain things (like consulting, or being a corporate lawyer) I think it's especially helpful, but for otherwise pure MBA jobs or pure JD jobs, I don't know how much of an advantage it would give you. As for me, I don't yet know whether it will help me enough to be worth it or not.

-- by 会员 aclegt (2011/5/6 13:04:45)

thanks

平林新月

There is no English language version of Chasedream as far as I know (if I'm wrong, please post a link, haha). A Chinese friend told me about it. It's the internet: not difficult to find things, haha.

Why do you guys seem so suspicious? If you can learn English and use English websites, certainly people from other countries will do the same for Chinese, haha.


(P.S. don't use the term gringo, it's not a good word)

-- by 会员 aclegt (2011/5/6 0:31:25)

I see, sorry for my gringo word. I am sure more people in China know English than people in the US know Chinese, hence it is interesting to see a foreigner showing up in Chinese forum while we Chinese sneaking into English forum is common. Whether you are really an American or not is unimportant. But I think this forum on law school admission is not quite useful. Very few threads everyday.

日落归田园

There is no English language version of Chasedream as far as I know (if I'm wrong, please post a link, haha). A Chinese friend told me about it. It's the internet: not difficult to find things, haha.

Why do you guys seem so suspicious? If you can learn English and use English websites, certainly people from other countries will do the same for Chinese, haha.


(P.S. don't use the term gringo, it's not a good word)

-- by 会员 aclegt (2011/5/6 0:31:25)

If I am not mistaken, gringo is not English. It is Spanish, meaning you are from North America (i.e. America).
I would say it's neutral.