Is the banking/finance program good at Ole Miss? By good I mean are there internship opportunities, CO-OP, relative prestige and decent professors? And would this be a good undergraduate business program before law school at an IVY?
University of Mississippi business profs would be the ones to ask.
US News ranks Ole Miss’ business program at #109 along with 18 other programs. (US News ranks 215 programs.)
The top law schools are not referred to as Ivies, but rather as the Top 14–some of which are Ivies.
The University of Mississippi is a regional school–meaning that most internships & job placements are in Mississippi or in the deep South. Depending upon where geographically you want to live & work after college, that could be a huge plus or a negative.
If you are a direct admit to an undergraduate business major, that is a significant plus.
What are your career plans or goals ?
Do you have a preferred geographical region where you would like to live & work ?
I plan on becoming a corporate lawyer in white collar criminal defence for Cravath. My plan is to go to Ole Miss in their business program and intern at Mckinsey in New York, LA or Toronto during the summers. I hope to go to law school at Harvard or Columbia to get my JD/MBA after Ole Miss so that I could work and live in one of the aforementioned cities after all my education is completed.
More specific than I expected. Thank you for responding.
Does McKinsey recruit at Ole Miss ? If not, an internship there is unlikely unless you have family or other strong personal connections to someone in the firm. Research core & target schools. I do not think that the University of Mississippi is a “core” or even a “target” school for any of MBB.
MBB internships usually go to students at Ivy League schools or Ivy equivalents such as Chicago, Northwestern & the Little Ivies.
Although I guess that “corporate lawyer in white collar criminal defense” can make sense, typically one would specify corporate law (transactional), business litigation or white collar criminal defense (criminal defense work involves litigation).
With your very specific career objectives in mind, the University of Mississippi would not be a good choice for you because it is not a target school for top tier management consulting & investment banking firms.
Also, among the Top 14 (Top 15) law schools, 5 are Ivy League schools. Three Ivies, Brown, Dartmouth & Princeton, do not have law schools.
The top law schools are (according to US News):
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Yale
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Stanford
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Harvard
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Chicago
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Columbia
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NYU
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Penn
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Michigan
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Virginia
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Duke
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Northwestern
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UCal-Berkeley
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Cornell
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Univ. of Texas
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Georgetown
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UCLA
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Vanderbilt
Typically, Georgetown is #14, but lately Georgetown & Texas have been switching spots in the US News rankings.
No, Thank you for responding and being so helpful!! I will definitely keep that in mind. To be honest, even if i did go to ole miss, for law school id definitely do my best to go to a top tier school so Mckinsey would recruit me then.
thanks so much for the list as well. I’ve been thinking about Upenn, Columbia and Harvard a lot.
Do you think that if i did end up going to ole miss, would the admission officers for the top 14 law schools care where i went?
No, law school admissions officers do not care where you went to college (although OLe’ Miss might be attractive to NE US law schools in order to add geographic diversity).
Law school admissions is based 60% on your LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) score. The highest score possible is a 180. For Harvard & Columbia a non-URM applicant would need to score in the 170s. And about 40% on one’s undergraduate GPA.
oh that doesnt sound too bad. What would be considered a URM at Harvard and Columbia? I am biracial (thai & german). As well, do law firms ever let undergraduates intern during the summers?
URM typically means African-American, Native American or Hispanic.
Yes, many law firms allow undergraduates to intern during summers–but, while it offers exposure to a law firm environment, it would not be meaningful work with respect to the practice of law.