When I was looking at grad schools, the best advice I got was: if they aren’t paying, you shouldn’t be going. I think that doesn’t hold for MBAs/law school or med school, of course, but for Ph.D programs, it’s a good rule of thumb.
Idiots going into debt for a Ph.D in Wymyn’s Studies have only themselves to blame.
Many yutes take the easy courses in hopes of getting the best grades. This begins in high school. What happens is they work themselves into an academic corner. Ultimately, achieving a 4.0 in social studies, communications, history, english, etc., does not bode well for a job after college, so they then double down by getting into Law School with these stellar grades only to be dumped out the other end, finally, with little to no chance of finding work. Then come crying when reality sets in. A little forethought and more difficult classes would have gotten them farther down the road to success.