Guaranteed law school admission three years from now. All you have to do is earn a 3.0+ GPA each of six undergraduate semesters, do the law school admissions paperwork and score higher than Widener's incoming class on the LSAT (which is basically doing the law school admissions paperwork).
This article also gives us one of the best zingers in crap regional journalism memory:
The program is intended to save students time and expense allowing for the completion of both degrees in six years instead of seven.The program is intended to push sheep into a meat grinder and make snow angels out of the resulting blanket of wool.
What I love the most is the implied persistence on Widener's part to gain an additional handful of profit generation toys. Again, Manor College traditionally is a two-year school after which students transfer. How many schools have they called? sat down with? sent a mailer? Did they call Penn? Haverford? Swarthmore? Weren't any of those schools interested in getting their students to professional unfulfillment more quickly?
As if one didn't need enough motivation to enroll in a school with a median LSAT of 148, the school offers a partial scholarship to students in this three-and-three program, which reduces the sticker tuition cost for Widener Law from a fist in the ass to four heavily knuckled fingers. From hearsay, I believe a thumb in the ass at a brothel would easily cost more than $20,000 if monetized year-round, so this is a considerable bargain.
So congratulations, Manor College. Your students now have the immeasurable benefit of potentially not suffering through arguably the best year of undergrad with easy admission to a school that's desperate for anyone who can recite the alphabet half in the bag. Anyone who buys such an agreement is surely an exemplary candidate for Widener and Delaware bar admission.
What? One can go from a community college straight to a JD program? Is that even consistent with the ABA's rules? I know that Cooley takes some people in who have not finished a bachelor's degree, but they were at least pursuing one.
ReplyDeleteApparently we've entered the era in which one can get into law school on the strength of an associate's degree in hairdressing or small-engine repair. Thanks, scamsters, for driving home the message that law is not an intellectual profession.
Ironically, these scamsters have inadvertently hit upon an idea whose time has come. (Every now and then, a blind squirrel finds an acorn, right?) It's high time to discard the expensive, frivolous, arcane idea that one needs a four-year university degree to progress on to bigger and better things. You're either smart enough to practice law, or you're not. What does taking another upper-division class in political science or English literature prove. The same is true for medicine. Has anyone wondered why we now have to import so many physicians from Pakistan, India, and Nigeria? Answer: Because it takes to long to graduate from medical school in America. It should take no more than six years of higher education (undergraduate + medical school) to be ready for post-graduate residency training, five years of undergraduate plus law school to be eligible for the bar, tops. Weed out the dummies earlier in the game and quit making young adults waste money and time taking yet another course in "Women's Studies" or "Social Implications of Urban Graffiti" before they can go to professional school.
ReplyDeleteI'd be a little more supportive of the four-year university model if universities were still turning out "well-rounded" graduates. Back in the day, you could graduate from college with a modicum of knowledge about history, philosophy, government. Now it's all political/ideological indoctrination and constant obsession with "inclusiveness" and avoiding offending anybody.
Those are civilized countries you refer to where dentistry or medical degrees are undergrad, such as the UK or Australia.
DeleteIn the U.S., getting rid of the undergrad requirement is a means to keep a failing school and a failing education model that preys on children to support a few cushy jobs at the ABA and the schools...