I've been asking everybody for advice, so I might as well ask my spcnet peeps, too.
I'm at a point in my life where I've hit a wall. I realize that I need a higher degree to take the next step in my career. I had always planned on going back to school and was just waiting to save up some money and get some work experience.
I took my GMAT and got a 700, which won't get me into Harvard, but would probably get me into a pretty good school. Well, I've been sitting on this for a while and haven't applied anywhere because I'm having serious thoughts about abandoning my business school plans all together.
I've wanted to be a lawyer since elementary school. In my senior year of high school I worked for a lawyer and he was a complete dill hole, pretty much scarring me and ruining my ideals of the profession. Now that I'm older, I realize there are dill holes in every career track.
As some of you know, I've worked in Marketing for the past several years. I like it. I have no real complaints. And if I do become an attorney, I would most likely stay in business law, possibly international business law or advertising law.
Another major argument for going to law school is that I'm very good at taking standardized tests. It doesn't mean I'm smarter than the average bear or anything. It's just a random skill I have. I got that 700 after studying just the day before at starbucks for a couple of hours. If I take the LSAT, I would probably do very well, as the only thing bringing my GMAT score down was math. And my best area is logical reasoning. I have confidence that I'd get into a top law school; better than the business schools I could get into.
I know several people on spcnet have gotten their mbas or are in the process, and I wanted to know if anybody has any advice for me either way. I tried making one of those pros/cons lists, and they came out tied. -_-