Just add it for free. If that's not good enough, buy a PhD from some random sham "school." If that's not good enough, go work at a random, exclusive, graduate

Just add it for free. If that's not good enough, buy a PhD from some random sham "school." If that's not good enough, go work at a random, exclusive, graduate school department of your desired university as an employee until they let you in their program. (I saw someone do this at [one of: Stanford, Berkeley or CalTech] and now they're a big-shot at Cedars-Sinai.) But why would anyone want to add "Dr." to their email signature? The only ones who do that, in my experience#, tend to be either narcissistic or deeply insecure. Folks with lengthy creds don't tend to rub colleagues' noses in it, and many societies at-large tend toward anti-intellectualism. (If you go to Harvard or Yale and other people aren't WASPs, then you say you go to Northeastern or NYU.) # I worked at a department with a 2% acceptance rate that had multiple TED speakers, and also a grad student married a decabillionaire.