So an acquaintance at my old (now, as of less than an hour ago, closed forever) Borders job has started at Concord School of Law, an online law school in the Kaplan conglomorate.
And we are not good enough friends that I can say “WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU LOOK AT YOUR LIFE LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES.”
Concord Law School is a for-profit school, which makes it shady as fuck just for that. It’s non-ABA accredited, students can only take the California Bar Exam and according to Wikipedia, one has managed to sue his way into being allowed to take the Massachusetts Bar Exam.
The pass rate of the California bar is around 36%.
WHY WOULD YOU WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS SHIT.
I mean, however much the ABA accredation process is full of shit, and I believe it is, I still do NOT understand why you would waste three years and a shitton of money on a non-accredited school. Your job prospects are severely hampered, some states won’t even let you take the bar- okay, the non-accredited schools are a LOT cheaper, they’d kind of have to be.
But this shit- I don’t know what she expects to be able to DO with a “degree” from an online diploma factory. I don’t get it.
Oy vey. I mean, I always feel a little bad when I have a reaction like this (“Going to a non-accredited for-profit school in California is the HUGEST waste of time any money!!! But MY law degree is DIFFERENT.”). But the thing is, my law degree IS different – my school is accredited! And not in a state with a 36% bar passage rate! And not for-profit!
It’s not my life. But I don’t get it either.
I think a lot of people just don’t understand about academic accreditation – they aren’ t informed education consumers. And the for-profit schools advertise, and advertise, and ADVERTISE.