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  1. Boolakanaka

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  2. See—https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/strategies-for-dealing-with-the-kiddie-tax-part-i/
  3. It’s interesting, I had a friend, at a similar age, decided to uproot his established legal career and did in fact enter a PhD program in his mid thirties. He never did pursue an academic position, but strangely enough was recruited by several VC firms, and did that for about 4-5 years (and presumably made a wheelbarrow full of money) and now is at the head of a large philanthropic concern. What starkly comes to mind in potential differences: he already had an appreciable skill set and had some money saved; he was a Yale Law graduate, and I think, he always knew he could fall back in practicing law again, and he never intended in pursuing anything related to a career in the academy.
  4. From an affordability level New Haven, is much cheaper to both live and navigate than Boston. I actually prefer New Haven over Boston, especially if you are going to have to live, say 30-40 minutes away. At YDS, it’s very conceivable that you might be just blocks away from the school ....
  5. Yup.....I second that—see:https://poetsandquants.com/2018/04/12/average-gre-scores-for-top-mba-programs/
  6. BTW, Portland is older than San Francisco and has much better comprehensive both public transportation and bike lanes....
  7. @The_Last_ThylacineVery kind of you to say —but hardly. That said, and in attempt to lasso this back to the topic at hand and perhaps offer why medicine is probably not the the best example, is that it’s a trade, a highly specialized one no doubt, but has many of the attributes of say a plumber or electrician. And for that reason, it amplifies the importance of logging in copious hours, repeating procedures and gathering a encyclopedic volume of experiences, so that it can then be transformed into seamless decision making during the actual practice of medicine. In that way, it does follow Malcolm Gladwell’s outlier of obtaining 10,000 hours to obtain expert status in most tasks. Twenty hours a week over ten years would place you at the the threshold of the 10,000 hour rule, and thus by multiplying it by four, you could cut it down to roughly 2.5- 3 years, which is roughly the period of a medical residency. I don’t know enough about philosophy to say if that is analogous, except to say, if it’s anything like law, periods of contemplation and introspection are necessary to not only digest the material, but moreover, to think about it in way that lends to creativity and exploration ...
  8. @The_Last_ThylacineNeither embellished nor inefficient. Consider why fairly recently that the AMA had to bar anything working pass the 80 hour work week—that is to say, it was so prevalent in some sub-specialties it was not just commonplace, but a twisted rite of passage. My wife did her training close to 16-17 years ago, so it was an entirely different environment without too much oversight or regulation. See-https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/397284 or https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/01/doctors-medical-residents-work-hours/ I am licensed in four states, including N.Y. and CA, did a LLM and it was not even remotely as hard or difficult as my wife’s training....she has both the pants and brains in our family—wink.
  9. Just to place in perspective, and while not entirely analogous, my wife did a combo MD/PhD, and there were some portions, in both programs, that eighty plus hours a well were the norm. Now, there was a portion of her training on the MD side where that was for a prolonged period, like for almost a year. Certainly, it would be dishonest and pollyanish to say it doesn’t take a toll, on a variety of levels, physically, mentally, on relationships, on loss of many activities, and just that period of her life. It was a six year program, plus she did a 4 year residency and subsequently a two-year sub-fellowship, but if you asked her, not only would she say it was doable, but she actually loved it. I can only surmise that there are some folks just cut of another cloth and meant for such grueling paces...
  10. @xypathos Lol....indeed. Nothing short of being an undergrad graduate at Yale is held in their belief as being a true Yalie. I knew folks who received both a JD and PhD in law at Yale (arguably more difficult than the admission rate of 5-6 percent for undergrads) who were still questioned whether they were true Yalies.....such utter pretentious nonsense.
  11. As someone who formerly advised and served as a counsel to the Ford Foundation, I can assure they were not “random academics”—were you a random applicant? Maybe you are still raw and processing their decision to not go forward with your application, as many have diplomatically expressed to you—a career in academics is more predominantly represented by failures than successes. The item that is more concerning is your fairly putative and effete pronouncements of both your peers and the process. My counsel, is try to take a modicum of appreciation for the process and leverage it into a learning experience.....contempt and temporary pride are not the arrows you want to use in this long journey.
  12. @Calmly_WaitingIn short, it’s illegal and a federal violation (I’m an attorney). Further, if you had to withdrawal by your own accord for the pregnancy, federal law requires that you must reinstated following your leave without penalty. Both title IX and the ADA have specific legal instruction and accommodation for your situation. That said, what happens on the retail level can be quite different and stark.....but you have very specific legal protections.
  13. @plump_helmetIf your aspiration is to later attend YLS, or the highest of aspirations (wink), then know this, undergrad and graduate degrees from Yale are the most highly represented in the admitted class—so it can help being a YDS graduate. Also it’s the smallest law school class among the tippy top school but also has the largest endowment (endowment is over a billion just for the law school) and has the expansive and generous loan repayment program in the nation. The major obstacle —getting admitted—when I was doing work there, there was a former general, a Pulitzer winner, and a former head of a hedge fund, among many many uber qualified folks......best of luck.
  14. @xypathos That’s true, I know even of a fairly well placed partner in a NY law firm, that obtained a M.Div degree later in life that received some notable aid.
  15. UTS allows for classes across the street, e.g. Columbia...,,
  16. If you are referring to the M.Div, there are no waitlists for that degree....
  17. Yep, it’s a generic invite they have utilized in past years.
  18. @southerncharmI would Yale SOM. It was not a tradional business school until the 1980s, and has a long history and tradition of public practice and policy.
  19. Hmmn, the PhD program I ways accepted to was highly selective and one of a very few in the entire US, and I was in my early 50s when I was accepted. They certainly knew I was not going to pursue a traditionally accepted teaching/academic path when they accepted me....
  20. @magnetite Unless there is a large gap in time between taking the GRE, you are usually required to submit all of your scores.
  21. There appears to be more than a handful of well-intentioned folks here giving some rather insightful advice. On the other hand, we have some rather generic excuses and rationale why the system is flawed and should not apply to the person who is applying to be a part of the very community she holds with such contempt. The system is not perfect, but it is what it is, participate in it or do not. Good folks are offering you good counsel....You should know this comes from an older OG man of color who has known every shade of poverty during his life.
  22. @chasebf More of the former than the later. Observations are made to what the length of the time span between test taking and what other life events have been occurring, e.g. a masters degree, field study, etc.....
  23. @rockwizard In my experience, and that’s based on being on admissions committees and having two daughters in graduate school (MIT and Yale) that after a couple of attempts, multiple scores are sort of discounted and but a piece of the admissions puzzle. That said, upper tier programs will be looking for consistency of high achievement in a variety of areas. For the record, both my Ds took the GRE just once...
  24. Take it from someone that is long in the tooth—one of the biggest gifts we can receive in life is clarity. It may not be on your terms or timing, but in many ways this provides you clear instruction and now you can create your own liberation....
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