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A Boston College law student unhappy with his job prospects has made the prestigious university an offer: return his money and he'll forfeit his degree.
The proposition was made in an open letter written by the student anonymously, identified only as a third-year law school student, and posted last week on the law school's independent student-run website, Eagleionline.
The guy should have thought about how he was going to support a family before he got the wife pregnant. I mean, I would bet that this time last year he was not to worried about his indebtedness to the degree.
Let's say the school takes him up on his offer. Since he has no law degree, he can't sit for the bar exam. He likely had no more than a menial part time job the last few years. I'm sure his job prospects will really soar if they did swap him his money for the degree.
+1. There are too many lawyers. This is common sense.
there are too many lawyers but people who have no real talent, i.e. for medicine, pro sports, entertainment, writing etc., and who have no real passion for anything often enter law school as a fall-back profession. Still, you take this gamble. His gamble isn't paying off. He's probably not in the top 10%, and Beantown has so many laws schools - Harvard, Boston University, Northeastern, Suffolk - it's difficult. He didn't know that when he applied? Not the school's fault.
well, no one told him to procreate while he was going several thousand dollars in debt. goes to show you that it's not just poor, uneducated people popping out kids that likely can't care for.
FWIW, the one person I knew who went to BC law had a job waiting for him upon graduation, so obviously the career services at the school are doing something (granted, this was a bit before '08 when the fit hit the shan, so to speak)
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