- Staying at Harvard Law School when you have no intention to practice law is a sign of insanity, not success, especially when one writes and thinks such complete and utter bullshit as can be seen on his Pitt page ("I am interested in understanding what it is that we do with our words," really?).
- There's nothing really prestigious or "successful" about graduating from Harvard Law (as opposed to "getting in") in 2011.
- Degrees themselves are not good indicators of success in anything given the modern education system.
- Brandon is 11 years out of high school and training in a field where jobs are extremely scarce, even for top graduates, therefore he is more of an abject failure than a success, even if he's intelligent.
But alas, Blogger was offline yesterday and deleted my post in its entirety.
I'm not saying HLS is the be-all end-all it was years ago, but to say there's "nothing" prestigious or successful about it is a real discredit to your otherwise strong argument.
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ReplyDeleteI admit it's a success getting into Harvard, but once you're there, what's the deal with actually going through the hoops and graduating?
It's not like Harvard flunks people out regularly. It's not like this is the space program or a rigorous pre-med course where they intentionally flunk people out. It's a 1700-student behemoth intent on passing people through, and there's no metric that shows a Harvard education itself is a testament to individual strength and intelligence; after all, Harvard grads fail the bar exam, too.
There's little difference between taking a class at HLS or taking the same class at a TTT. The competition is more fierce at Harvard and as a result, the questions might have some extra loopholes to distinguish Jim from Joe, but if all we're concerned about is passing (i.e. graduating), that's not really a consideration. Frankly, any student who carries a B-average at a TTT would be able to merely pass Harvard. Well, there are probably 25,000 each year who do that and relatively few who fail.
Of course, I'm speaking of success in the objective sense. There's always a personal success to finishing law school. But objectively, I just don't think it's there anymore. What, exactly, is the challenge? For someone intelligent, merely passing a law school exam really isn't that hard, and at Harvard, you now can graduate by getting "low pass" in every single class (http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/handbook/rules-relating-to-law-school-studies/2010-2011-requirements-for-the-j.d.-degree-.html#M.MinimumGradesforJ.D.Students).
Prior to the reform, grading inflation was absurd at Harvard: http://www.hlrecord.org/2.4463/investigating-the-grading-curve-1.577801. 1% of grades given were C or below. So even though up to 5% of HLS graduates would fail the bar in NY (see LSN), only 1% of grades handed out were at the C level or below.
Again, where's the objective success of sitting through the classes and finishing the degree if you really don't have to work that hard, all things considered?
@11:48, everyone learns the same law from professors who went to the same schools. What HLS gives you is presTTTige. The only things the degree is good for are getting a job and picking up women.
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I feel now a days degree is enough for get a good job..
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