Boston College Law Student Asks for Refund on Tuition
October 21st, 2010*chortle*
Via: Boston Herald:
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.
The law school student’s missive then proposed a “solution to this problem.”
The student offered to leave law school without a degree at the end of the semester in exchange for a full tuition refund — a move the erstwhile aspiring attorney says would help BC’s US News ranking because it wouldn’t have to report another graduate’s state of unemployment.
BC Law is not warm to the idea.
wait.. I guess you have to be really charitable or less competitive to be a public defender.
“The school’s Web site says 97.6 percent of the Class of 2009 got jobs in law firms, government, business or academia, with a median “private sector” salary of $160,000; $35,000 in the “public sector” and $57,000 in “government.”
I’m sorry but I’m expected to feel sorry for these people? They choose to spend a fortune going to a school to get an academic education and then want their money back when they haven’t YET found a job? As if it could ever be the school’s fault?
This is downright pathetic. Go get your fucking diaper changed you whining bitches.