Don't quit. Do both. Study. Get your 165, apply, and get admitted, but don't quit. Work on parallel plans. If you're swinging between trees, don't let go of one branch before you have the next branch firmly in your grasp.

I've been a senior corporate recruiter for 12+ years and have worked for FAANG companies, so I know the participants, patterns, and outcomes. We are experiencing historic, tectonic shifts to reduce headcount in hiring, work allocation, job responsibilities— all of it, everything about work— driven by AI (or what companies think they can do with AI) and will remake entire industries. Already, in workforce analysis circles, social sciences, OPsych, and HR groups, they are drawing a line of demarcation between "before AI" and "after AI." The shift AI will bring to the workforce is nothing short of the Industrial Revolution.

If you're a project manager, the impact on your job and other similar jobs cannot and must not be underestimated.

Apply to your favorite schools, and if you get in, go for it. If you don't get in, stick it out with your job. If you get RIFd before you can apply again, you'll get a juicy departure package that can fund your life for six months or maybe a year if you're frugal, effectively paying you to study for the LSAT for the next cycle. Either way, you'll have a plan, be focused, and be funded.