Commander of Awesome
Posts: 23,151
Jun 21, 2011 11:54am
I feel that same graph could be made for college period.
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BoatShoes
Posts: 5,703
Jun 21, 2011 3:07pm
recent law school grad here. Work for a Vault 100 firm in Cleveland. Lucky as hell to get my job and despite the soul draining reality of my job I'm grateful to have it. As we slide into a Japan-like lost decade who knows when I'll get my walking papers? Law school is a gamble right now. But as far as the LSAT goes I just bought books I didn't take a class.
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Manhattan Buckeye
Posts: 7,566
Jun 21, 2011 8:22pm
fan_from_texas;808541 wrote:Pulling this up from the grave--saw an article today that was of some relevance:
That's hilarious, although I would question whether Georgetown is still a prestigious school. IMO UCLA, Texas and Vanderbilt should all be ahead of that diploma factory in the US News rankings, but that's splitting hairs.
The issue is the debt coming out - it has gone beyond outrageous, even at Harvard/Yale/Stanford. Where is the value in the education other than the diploma and the contacts you make in school? There is nothing taught in law school that allows you to practice from day one, unless one wants to test their malpractice insurance carrier. Having gone to a public school the salaries of the professors/staff are publicly available, and they are outrageous. Administrative assistants are pulling in $80,000+ as well as a taxpayer funded pension (pension, what's that in the real world?) and some of the older professors/deans are making $300,000+. There's no market check for this - no reason to pay them that much. What are they going to do, go work for Hunton & Williams? No, because they don't have private practice skills. As the economy simmers in misery it appears that these schools are doubling down on their greed.
2kool4skool
Posts: 1,804
Jun 21, 2011 8:28pm
The one time you actually quote something correctly, it's a giant ass picture. SMH.
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Manhattan Buckeye
Posts: 7,566
Jun 21, 2011 8:36pm
2kool4skool;809153 wrote:The one time you actually quote something correctly, it's a giant ass picture. SMH.
I quote correctly all the time, when I'm at my desktop. Most of my posts are through my phone - which as I've mentioned makes quoting, and perfect grammar, difficult. Most people seem to understand what I'm getting at.
Plus it is far easier to edit when I'm in the office.