I have an interview today with a real estate law firm and as I’m preparing for potential questions, I can’t quite figure out the best way to answer to “why are you pursuing a non legal graduate program?” I am pursuing a Master of Science in Real Estate which is about financing, underwriting and management of real estate assets, which hopefully allow me to move in-house as an acquisitions analyst of sorts. So I guess my question is how do I translate that knowledge and skill set to meet the

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