Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
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Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
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#2I have sympathy for this guy but look nobody promised you a job when you took on those loans. It is basic risk reward. You took on a lot of loans to get a law degree because lawyers get paid well. You took on risk and it did not work out. Happens. Often too entrepreneurs.
Re: Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
#3I like how he says "at the end of this semester", why not immediately?
Re: Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
#4BC != BU.
Re: Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
#5I have sympathy for this guy but look nobody promised you a job when you took on those loans. It is basic risk reward. You took on a lot of loans to get a law degree because lawyers get paid well. You took on risk and it did not work out. Happens. Often too entrepreneurs.
Agreed. Two and a half years of law school and/or a degree are an assest. People are hiring lawyers, so become one of the ones that gets hired; or become one of those guys on TV.
I doubt he will be refunded, nor do I think he should.
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Re: Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
#7BC != BU.
No kidding. I went to BU and taught at BC, and I'll be goddammed if I know who to root for in hockey.
Re: Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
#8I have sympathy for this guy but look nobody promised you a job when you took on those loans. It is basic risk reward. You took on a lot of loans to get a law degree because lawyers get paid well. You took on risk and it did not work out. Happens. Often too entrepreneurs.
Technically true, but many (most?) law schools have indeed, marketed themselves to students using statistics about post-graduation employment. Of course, the reality is that they count any employment, and in some cases have inflated statistics by hiring recent graduates for positions within the school itself, which last only for 6 weeks but happen to include the period ending 3 months after graduation (which is what's measured in the US News & World Report rankings). It's a perfect storm of too many government subsidies (qua student loans), expanding market (bad economy? maybe stay in school), and regulatory capture.
That said, this guy doesn't seem cut out for the trade in the first place, although it's possible that that I'm wrong and this is actually a shrewd exercise in personal branding.
Re: Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
#9I can't see how he expected this would be accepted. I do sympathize with his situation but until someone invents a memory erasing machine to remove his accrued knowledge, a 'time refund' for all people who invested in his being there, and a method to magically transfer everything to the other person who would have paid to sit in that seat for the last few years, you just can't turn back time.
He would still walk away with knowledge, degree or not, and the school is out the time and effort to have imparted that knowledge. It's like asking for a refund if you don't achieve the degree. "I failed, I didn't get the degree, so can I be refunded?"
Re: Open letter to BC Law School's dean to leave and get a refund
#10I have sympathy for this guy but look nobody promised you a job when you took on those loans. It is basic risk reward. You took on a lot of loans to get a law degree because lawyers get paid well. You took on risk and it did not work out. Happens. Often too entrepreneurs.
People who take on risk for reward are still entitled to be upset at people who have lied to them about the nature of the risk and reward. There's a difference between taking on risk in an informed manner and getting conned into taking the risk.
On occasion I think HN goes overboard on the reward side of entrepreneurship too, and that's not right when that happens either. Tell the truth, let people make up their minds. (And to be clear, I mean it just happens sometimes. On the whole there's too many people doing it for real for raw cheerleading to go unchallenged for long.)
People have been getting led on about the value of their degree for a while now. The economic situation is bringing things to a head but it's not new.
Also, I doubt this is a serious call for a refund, in the sense that he has even the remote expectation of one. This is a warning to others dressed up with a rhetorical flourish.