“Imagine how many law schools would be shut down when their demon spawn can’t find jobs. The legal cause is there - most schools are lying like cheap rugs when they peddle their stats on what graduates can expect in the job market with these useless degrees in useless subjects.”
Absolutely. A family member was REALLY pushed into borrowing EVERYTHING to get a law degree. She was told the $100,000 price tag would get her a job where she’d bill $125 an hour. Shown charts with starting salaries for attorneys at $85,000 per year; average attorney after ten years clearing $150,000. They told her not to work, but to borrow it all, as she’d have a hard time keeping up with the class load, and sure enough it was very demanding, but she did make it through. She figured the cost of the student loan payments would be well compensated by the increased salary. . .
except that in reality, people with law degrees are rarely hired to do anything in the last few years. Most are unemployed or working OUTSIDE the law profession. Some states, the bar pass rate is less than 50%. So you can’t practice. And that pass rate is arbitrary, with graded essays and so forth.
It is a racket, I am telling you. Someone with a Bachelor’s and three years of law school is not a lazy slacker. But the degree is usually WORTHLESS.
Instapundit and Professor Jacobson’s blogs have been covering this for a few years now. They also talk about other degrees.