Gorky

Last fall I withdrew from a top-20 law school with a 3.07 GPA. I realized that I would be much happier pursuing my interests in a history graduate program than continuing on to a career as an attorney. I know that this is a very low GPA for graduate school (and exceedingly average for law school), but don't have any sense of how both leaving law school and having a B-average transcript will impact my application to a very different type of program. I have a 3.72 GPA from a top undergraduate history program and scored 800v/790q on the GRE. I think my writing sample will be strong and I am just beginning the SOP. I'm hoping to get letters of recommendation from two of my undergraduate history professors and one law professor. Basically, I was wondering if anyone else has successfully applied to history programs after leaving law school or if anyone has an opinion as to how much weight my law school history will be given in the application process. I think I would have been a stronger applicant right out of undergrad, but so it goes. At this point, I am not sure if I should look for a master's program before pursuing a PhD to be a stronger applicant... Thanks for any feedback!