Posted on 10/21/2010 6:10:26 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
A third-year Boston College Law School student facing dismal job prospects and a mountain of student loan debt has offered the prestigious Hub institution a unique deal: Keep the degree ... and give me back my tuition!
In an open letter to BC Law’s Interim Dean George Brown posted on EagleiOnline— an online student-run newspaper at BC’s law school — the anonymous dissatisfied customer said soon-to-be grads are about to enter “one of the worst job markets in the history of our profession” and an “overwhelming majority” of them can’t find jobs.
“We are discouraged, scared, and in many cases, feeling rather hopeless about our chances of ever getting to practice law,” the student wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“Supply and Demand”
They may not have directly promised employment, but man these college recruiters will practically promise you the sun.
Watch some of the college commercials on TV, browse some of the recruiting literature and you will see what I mean.
Top 10 Colleges at Job Placement
1. The University of Texas at Austin
2. University of Notre Dame
3. Penn State - University Park
4. Clemson University
5. Sweet Briar College
6. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
7. Southwestern University
8. Smith College
9. Bryant University
10. Cornell University
http://www.collegetips.com/college-money/college-job-placement.php
Good! We have enough lawyers; if they would quit chasing ambulances we’d have a vast surplus.
Oh this move will now make him a really desirable employee. /s
I wonder if he was also benched in favor of a Freshman Quarterback?
My daughter-in-law is a BC Law grad. She’s passed the bar in MA. and Maine and is now a partner in her firm. Never had a problem finding a job.
I know one BC Law grad who I hope is unemployed soon. Ed Markey!
He just created his first case.
“if they would quit chasing ambulances we’d have a vast surplus”
If they’d get IN FRONT of the ambulance first, before chasing it, we could get the numbers down to a more manageable level.
I guess it would be too much to hope for that another BC Law grad would retire to his new boat in Rhode Island...
The legal job market is worse than you think. There is a complete glut of lawyers in this country. Each job opening attracts hundreds of applicants or more. Law schools have been hiring their own graduates in order to increase their employment stats for the US News rankings. They count someone flipping burgers as “employed”.
On top of that, the ABA accredits new schools every year, which routinely charge $40,000.00 per year for tuition.
That being said, all of this information was easily available to this student before enrolling. Yes, BC is a good law school, but it’s not T14. This guy should have known all this beforehand.
He/she is (almost) a lawyer—why doesn’t he just sue them?
Considering the time it takes to graduate law school, this DUmmie must have made the decision to become a lawyer back in the middle of the Bush administration.........so, it Bush’s fault................
He must have graduated summa cum whiney............
I hope so. Blue Collar jobs make things and do stuff, rather than attaching themselves to other peoples' output, like a lamprey eel.
Future Government employee!!!
He has no standing.................
LOL - glad I had just swallowed my coffee before reading your post or you would have owed me a keyboard. Good one.
Nah, their parents paid for those worthless degrees.
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