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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: December 2012
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Thursday, December 20, 2012. The Increasingly Impossible Financial Mathematics of Education. Non-trads, if you are looking at law school, you are likely looking at it through the lens of positive results from your prior undergrad education and/or graduate education. The one that wasn't too expensive on balance, that yielded good returns in the final analysis. OK, well, that dream has been dying in the interim:. What does the above chart imply?
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: "Go Back to Square One"
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Friday, February 1, 2013. Go Back to Square One". Paul Campos does a nice rebuttal. However, the comment from JoeJones in that article speaks volumes to me, and I suspect to many others:. Let them eat cake," is the wisdom from Queen Sonia, it would seem. What about me, Queen Sonia? How can I be made whole after losing everything to the law school scammers? But, this is always been the attitude of those who receive priviledge in one form or ano...
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: The Voice of Experience
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Tuesday, February 5, 2013. The Voice of Experience. Or: "Problems in the legal arena now are due to the Great Recession, and not due to any JD over-production or other claimed systemic issues. Why, back as early as 2005, law-graduates were well sought after and commanded high salaries.". Some would beg to differ. January 31, 2013 at 7:51 PM. Http:/ insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2013/01/law-and-economics.html. January 31, 2013 at 8:50 PM.
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: March 2011
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Thursday, March 3, 2011. Higher Education = Buying Connections (if only! This is a post that is not really non-trad-specific, but bears discussion all the same. Back in say, oh, the 16th century, the nobility ran the show, and the peasants did all the hoeing and picking. Did the best and the brightest of the peasantry go to university? If you are the son of a senator (SPQR-variety or otherwise), for example, it’s ostensibly easier to get...
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: May 2012
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Too old, too young, too qualified, too non-traditional. Http:/ www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-vets-unemployed-20120426,0,2627227.story? The hypocrisy runs high. Ten years ago, I guarantee that this individual would have been a highly competitive hire due to his law degree, military experience, and the maturity that goes along with these accomplishements. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Exposing The Law S...
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: September 2011
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Tuesday, September 27, 2011. The Erosion of Trust. I am a child of the 70s, a teen of the 80s – by most definitions, I am firmly planted in Gen-X. Enter higher education, self-proclaimedly free from the bonds and constraints of business and economics. The “non-profit” world of education and ideas, advancing human understanding and knowledge. The noble, ivory tower of human betterment, preparing the future leaders of tomorrow. At tuition rates ...
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: April 2011
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Monday, April 25, 2011. Hybrid Careers - The Second (or Third) Time is (Allegedy) the Charm. Http:/ www.newsobserver.com/2011/04/03/1098436/eyeing-a-career-change-they-look.html. This is an oft-repeated canard that I am especially sick of hearing. You should be too. Aren’t you a go-getter! When you blend, say, a law degree with a CPA designation, you are the bee’s-knees all of a sudden. “You’re the kind of person we need ...Well in 2000, it wa...
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: Student Loan Defaults at 15%
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Student Loan Defaults at 15%. Http:/ www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2013-01-29/overdue-student-loans-reach-unsustainable-15-fair-isaac-says.html. OK, I lied, here's some commentary because I can't not go on about this: The lol skool shills will go on and on about how "this is across all student loans, not specifically law grads" and "law is a lifetime career" and the other old, tired canards. Jobs not as plentiful?
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: February 2013
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Monday, February 25, 2013. The Only Winning Move is Not to Play. Even WOPR gets bored doing Document Review. Props to the commenters at ILSS:. February 11, 2013 at 8:02 AM. Thirty years later you cannot tell me that anyone teaching or administering at ANY law school doesn't know what the score is. UMass has to know this. How can they say with a straight face that they are not luring naive college students of limited abilities into a trap w...
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game: July 2012
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Super-Duper: The Non-traditional Law Student Confidence Game. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Chemerinsky vs. Tamanaha on Tutition Costs. I was reading the latest defense of the Law School Cartel, and had to take a break from student woes for a minute. I remember having to bludgeon my way through Mr. Chemerinsky's con law text book for two semesters way back when, and not surprisingly, I find his defenses equally obtuse now. Ladies and Gentlemen, "You Get What You Pay For":. Some of my favorite parts:. You might...