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Fabian Ronisky, a Northwestern University School of Law grad, 150K in debt, and no job...

Here is the story:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 18446.html

So much for working hard, and great LSAT and GPA.

Cool story brah.

javancho wrote:Fabian Ronisky, a Northwestern University School of Law grad, 150K in debt, and no job...

don't go to law school and you will not be an unemployed law school graduate

wow that was easy

Then don't go to law school. Ta-duh!

A person exists with a JD from a reputable institution who is also currently unemployed?

The hell you say.

At most schools you only need a 2.0 to graduate. Sometimes a 1.667. Simply having a JD doesn't mean much. Outside HYS if you barely met the minimum standard to graduate your ass is grass, in any economy.

androstan wrote:At most schools you only need a 2.0 to graduate. Sometimes a 1.667. Simply having a JD doesn't mean much. Outside HYS if you barely met the minimum standard to graduate your ass is grass, in any economy.

The curve, maybe you've heard of it?

Enough of these "enter law school at your own risk." We get it.

androstan wrote:A person exists with a JD from a reputable institution who is also currently unemployed?

The hell you say.

At most schools you only need a 2.0 to graduate. Sometimes a 1.667. Simply having a JD doesn't mean much. Outside HYS if you barely met the minimum standard to graduate your ass is grass, in any economy.

well, if he got a biglaw 2L summer internship, it seems unlikely that he was pulling a 2.0

more likely that he's a complete douche

bk187 wrote:

androstan wrote:At most schools you only need a 2.0 to graduate. Sometimes a 1.667. Simply having a JD doesn't mean much. Outside HYS if you barely met the minimum standard to graduate your ass is grass, in any economy.

The curve, maybe you've heard of it?

What's your point? Most curves are loose enough to allow for a particularly strong class (very few, if any, C's) or for outlying weak students (more C's, sometimes D's and F's). Especially at the stronger, more reputable schools, people recognize the fact that students there are generally driven and smart. Therefore, the curve is loose enough to be skewed right, if the quality of the student population's work warrants it.

In response to the biglaw internship, he could have had good grades leading into OCI and then tanked becausehe thought he was golden?

The point is, we don't know the whole story by a country mile.

FeelTheHeat wrote:Cool story brah.

I like how this has become the automatic response to any personalized bad news story. Move over "retake" theres a new smartass comment in town

fatduck wrote:

androstan wrote:A person exists with a JD from a reputable institution who is also currently unemployed?

The hell you say.

At most schools you only need a 2.0 to graduate. Sometimes a 1.667. Simply having a JD doesn't mean much. Outside HYS if you barely met the minimum standard to graduate your ass is grass, in any economy.

well, if he got a biglaw 2L summer internship, it seems unlikely that he was pulling a 2.0

more likely that he's a complete douche

Normally, I don't take the side of the sky-is-falling types, nor do I think that a single data point says much, but offer rates have fallen a LOT. So he could be a complete douche, or just unfortunate, or a combination of the two.

Stonewall wrote:

FeelTheHeat wrote:Cool story brah.

I like how this has become the automatic response to any personalized bad news story. Move over "retake" theres a new smartass comment in town

I'm fairly sure "cool story bro" predates "retake."

At least he's good looking?

bk187 wrote:

Stonewall wrote:

FeelTheHeat wrote:Cool story brah.

I like how this has become the automatic response to any personalized bad news story. Move over "retake" theres a new smartass comment in town

I'm fairly sure "cool story bro" predates "retake."

Cool story bro is also not just a TLS meme, FWIW.

sanjola wrote:At least he's good looking?

more sad-looking at the moment

paratactical wrote:Cool story bro is also not just a TLS meme, FWIW.

That was kind of my point.

This is the exact same story you already shared in another thread, you don't need to keep starting new threads to share things you already shared.

OP gets a timeout and warning for trolling. Folks who want to discuss this stuff can go do it in one of the many threads already in progress about how much the economy sucks and nobody's gonna get jobs.