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To me, this article perfectly captures what is wrong with legal education: students are plunking down $150,000 @ ~8.0% to learn how to support themselves practi
by reader5000 15y ago
To me, this article perfectly captures what is wrong with legal education: students are plunking down $150,000 @ ~8.0% to learn how to support themselves practicing law, and in exchange they get three years of abstract classroom lecturing. Add into the equation documented outright fraud in employment statistics reporting on the part of law schools and you have what is legitimately a scam going on. Best of all, there's no return policy for JDs. Not even bankruptcy.
- gtani 15y agohttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html?pagewa... This was a good story, recent JD with $250k in student loans, no job, and he knows he needs to stay calm. Incidentally this from 2nd page of googling "law school student loans" (the same google search done by hundreds of thousands of college juniors every year), buried in a sea of websites telling you how easy it is to make law school, business school or whatever your dream is, attainable/affordable.
- Confusion 15y agoIf you think physics students are there to 'learn how to support themselves practicing physics', you sorely miss the point of academic schooling.