Disgruntled Grad Spreads Insane Tale Of Law School Debt Woes -- Via Hundreds Of Windshield Flyers

Clean up on aisle three: this Charlotte Law grad's life is in shambles all over the floor.

According to the hopes, wishes, and dreams of law school administrators, the end is near for disastrous application and plummeting enrollment numbers. No longer will admissions officers be forced to scrape the bottom of the barrel with “less able” candidates when it comes to putting butts in seats. Job offers will come before graduation, and they will be plentiful — ten months after graduation, entire classes will be employed in full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage is required. Struggles with law school debt will be a thing of the past, and frustrated graduates simply won’t exist.

Doesn’t that sound nice? Too bad it’s just a pipe dream.

Outside the dreamscape, applications have drastically declined since the end of the recession, and law schools are dealing with a 40-year low for enrollment. Despite the fact that graduating classes are smaller, making the numbers look better, law school administrators celebrate “great strides” in their graduates’ employability, popping bottles of champagne because 59.9 percent of graduates are employed as lawyers nationwide.

To make matters worse, law schools have to combat extremely negative publicity, like this:

I live in NoDa, a neighborhood about two miles from uptown Charlotte. When I woke up this morning I noticed a piece of paper on everyone’s window throughout the whole parking lot. I’m talking hundreds of cars. I don’t know if the disgruntled former Charlotte Law student went beyond this area to place the flyers — if so, we could be talking thousands of cars or more. It is clear that whoever did this did it in the dead of night.

This is the piece of paper that was plastered upon hundreds, if not thousands, of windshields overnight. Read it and weep for this (literally) poor law school graduate:

Perhaps this is one of the mystical “J.D. Advantage” jobs that career services officers speak so highly of when defending the fact that their graduates aren’t employed as lawyers.

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Charlotte Law is a for-profit school that’s part of the evil empire that is better known as the InfiLaw System. The school received full accreditation from the American Bar Association just four years ago, in 2011. As of the 2013-2014 academic year, the total cost of a three-year J.D. degree from Charlotte Law was $123,792.00, while the median loan debt per graduate was $159,208.00. Just 34 percent of the class of 2014 was employed in full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage was required, but disappointing employment statistics like this have been a constant since the school was accredited. All of this easily searchable, damning information has been posted online for years.

Administrators at Charlotte Law may have been “lying” by telling students fantastical stories about graduates’ achievements in the job market, but we’re pretty sure that this frustrated and heavily indebted graduate was only lying to himself if he thought that he’d be one of the rare success stories out of this law school. Now, like so many law school graduates, this fellow will have to carry a debt albatross for the rest of his life.

Good on this graduate for attempting to spread the word that a costly education from Charlotte Law is a bad deal, but maybe next time, he ought to consider the fact that $200,000 of debt isn’t the only thing a Walmart employee’s salary can’t support. Like his law degree, these flyers were probably not worth the cost of the ink they were printed with.

Clean up on aisle three: this Charlotte Law grad’s life is in shambles all over the floor.

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