25 years old and deep in debt

[DGuller]

When I was at Harvard

Wait, what?  And you were letting Meri give you shit?

I was there just for the first two years, until I transferred to the college of my first choice. 

[crazy canuck]

When I was at Harvard, there were lots and lots of Asian students there.  Unless Asians are a lot more firmly rooted in our society than I think they are, I'm kind of doubting the 15% on-merit figure.

He excluded the "minority quota".

Basically all he is saying is that of all the people admitted 15% are white guys with no family connections...

I don't think there are any quotas for Asians.

There are spaces alloted for people from foreign countries.  Not sure whether an "asian" is considered a minority in the US.  I suspect it is.

[Ideologue]

When I was at Harvard

Wait, what?  And you were letting Meri give you shit?

I was there just for the first two years, until I transferred to the college of my first choice. 

WTFF.

[HVC]

When I was at Harvard

Wait, what?  And you were letting Meri give you shit?

I was there just for the first two years, until I transferred to the college of my first choice. 

DeVry?

[DGuller]

There are spaces alloted for people from foreign countries.  Not sure whether an "asian" is considered a minority in the US.  I suspect it is.

I think they were mostly immigrants, not international students.

[DGuller]

I was there just for the first two years, until I transferred to the college of my first choice. 

WTFF.

Alternatively, I may have been there for a couple of days for a high school math competition.  I swear that one of these two explanations is true.

[Ideologue]

That's better, DGarbon.

[frunk]

There is only a 20 point difference between the legacies that are accepted and everyone else.    You would have to assume a large number of legacy applicants to make the assumption that they take a large percentage of the seats.  Are Ivy league parents that fertile?

If you assume that ~90% of legacies marry non-legacies, and that they average a replacement level of kids, the number of immediate descendant legacy candidates who could apply increases by ~1.9 times each generation.  If only 50% of them applied even with a 20% acceptance rate that's 19% of the student population each year right there.  That doesn't even take into account grandparent legacies or uncle/aunt legacies which could greatly increase the numbers.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not anti-academia, I'm anti-college-industrial complex, and, to a lesser degree, anti-liberal arts (at least as something taxpayers generously fund and millions of people take out loans to study).  Science departments do have their own issues, but I do not question their existence the same way I do with small college history programs or law schools.

That's only because you did not get all the finest meats and cheeses in all the land handed to you once you graduated as a Juris Doctor.
It would be different if you had gone to a law school with a bigger rep, then you'd be all LULZ LAWLS SKOOLS RULEZ with the Languish heavy hitters of PLJ and JR. Malthus just did it as an extended electives program.

Nah, if I'd somehow leveraged a JD into riches, I'd still be miserable, because big boy BigLaw (versus doc review) is fucking horrible.

Sure, BigLawlz may require anywhere from 2,000-2,400 billable hours a year, but you can't sneeze at the six figures they start associates at.  Makes goofing on other law school grads getting into touchy-feely NPO fluffiness so much easier.

And I'd still be aware that other people got poor or negative ROIs out of their JDs, and that's because I didn't suddenly become a revolutionary citizen after I lost my job.  Unlike some people.

I mean, of course, fahdiz.

Pass the fucking bar and put out your own shingle, dammit.  Like I've told you to do already.  Be your own boss.

[Ideologue]

I could give handjobs on the corner and be my own boss.  Probably get more clients too.

[CountDeMoney]

Now see, that's not right.  That's not having a productive, positive conversation.

[Admiral Yi]

You really should make a try on the bar bro.

Tell you what; to sweeten the deal I'll let you give Raz a foot massage if you pass.

[garbon]

That's better, DGarbon.

[DGuller]

That's better, DGarbon.

Can you imagine how I feel? 

[garbon]

Being elevated out of NJ? I'd be elated.