<p>Which is generally considered more competitive to get into, an MBA program or Law School? Also, say I got my MBA after undergrad, would my chances of law school be much greater?</p>
<p>I would say Law is more competitive because the top schools generally tend to be smaller. It's harder to gain admission. You need to have awesome grades and a fantastic LSAT scores. For an MBA from a top school, you need good grades and good GMATs but alot depends on work experience.</p>
<p>To get an MBA after undergrad from a good school, you're going to have to work first. So if you go to Law School after that. you'd probably be up there in years...at least like older than the normal law student. I'd go for a joint program MBA/JD if I were you. They're usually 4 years.</p>
<p>I don't know if an MBA makes you more competitive for the JD though. It's very much based on GPA and LSATs.</p>
<p>It depends on exactly what you're talking about.</p>
<p>The easiest business school is much easier than the easiest law school. At the top-tier end, however, it gets tricky. Standardized testing matters much more for law school; work experience and interviews and essays matter much more for MBA programs; which one are you better at? Who knows.</p>
<p>The MBA will not materially affect JD admissions.</p>
<p>Stanford's biz school admitted 6% of its applicants last year; Harvard's biz school admitted 12% in 2003, 15% in 2004, and 16% in 2005.</p>
<p>Yale's law school admitted 6.8% of its applicants last year; Stanford's admitted 6.8%; Boalt admitted 11%, and Harvard Law School 12.6%.</p>
<p>The percentage admitted is far from a perfect substitute for the question of how competitive admissions are, as the applicant pool is self-selected.</p>
<p>Some other relevant numbers: there were 43,883 J.D.'s awarded by ABA-accredited law schools last year. There were 97,619 MBA's awarded in the US in 1997, the most recent year for which I found this statistic. </p>
<p>By comparison, there were 16,139 M.D.'s awarded in the US last year.</p>
<p>Decide what you want to do, and work forward from that.</p>
<p>Concur with others that main JD admit factors are LSAT and undergrad grades, as many/most JD catalogs point out.</p>