<p>At penn previews the wharton school dean spoke of a way undergraduate students could matriculate into the law school during junior year and hence pursue both business and law simultaneously. However, I cannot find this program anywhere on penn's website. Can someone tell me if this program does or does not exist?</p>
<p>if you get a perfect or near perfect gpa freshman year, then talk to your advisor about it during sophomore year. there’s no website because there’s nothing to it besides applying to(and getting accepted by) the law school.</p>
<p>they have the same thing for nursing school, you also has to clearly get all the requirements needed to get into penn law school normally, including the median LSAT and recommendations, essays, etc.</p>
<p>is this route actually considered by a lot of wharton students? where would these studnets go after a JD, surely they cant go into the typical bulge bracket setting because wouldn’t the whole recruiting cycle be messed up?</p>
<p>my goal specifically is to work at a big firm in corporate law. I figure that a business degree and experience from the most prestigious business school would give me an upperhand in dealing with the problems that plague the corporate superstructure. Besides, it would also allow me to avoid the cutthroat competition of the finance and still have the same possibility in terms of income.</p>
<p>If you can get into Wharton, maintain a near-perfect GPA, and are looking to law school, sure, maybe use Penn Law as a backup, but you should be able to do a lot better in the law school admissions game. What is Penn Law ranked this year? #8 or #9 in the rankings? If you can maintain really high grades at Wharton, you could certainly look to get into a much better law school than Penn Law.</p>
<p>I understand, maybe use the accelerated program to have a nice “safety” lined up, but again, I’d still recommend studying hard for the LSAT. With a near-perfect GPA from Wharton and a very good LSAT score, Harvard etc. certainly is not out of reach, and Columbia/Chicago etc. should be reasonable targets. Penn/Michigan/Virginia shouldn’t really be the goal by that point.</p>