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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Professor here...agree both are great options[/b] and the student should look at specific faculty profiles and/or evaluate where they'll be happiest.[/quote]

Botb are great.  My UVA grad is doing a doctorate (DPhil) at Oxford right now.[/quote]

When I was looking at graduate programs, I was warned that although a certain Oxbridge college had the best stash of materials for my chosen topic, no U.S. institution was going to hire me to teach with a DPhil. I was shocked, but it was my department chair, so he clearly knew about hiring.

Has that changed, or is your kid planning to do something else with their degree?[/quote]

Definitely correct. There are over a hundred libraries at Oxford, the Bodlein being the most famous and one of the oldest in Europe. Most if the libraries have foreign language collections that no one else does. DC currently is prepping for the lsat. Yes the masters work ties in with law[/quote]

So you’re 29 (at the earliest) when you start making real money?
Joint JD/PhD program, maybe?[/quote]

That’s 9 yers of education after college (more than a surgeon with residency) to do… what??  I’m a lawyer.  A  patent attorney might want a masters in a technical field. Or a JD/MBA.  Besides that, you either don’t need the JD or don’t need the post grad degree.  All, I see is a serious amount of family wealth, or a serious amount of debt. And someone over 30 who has never had a real job. [/quote]

1) no seven years. The MPhil is two - then because the DPhil is a development of the thesis only two years.  The lsat gets worked in there on the side. Then three years law
2). See the point above about the Justices having MPhils or DPhils from Oxford and. Am ridge. You do need an oomph factor if applying as a white female to top law school.  The thesis should be published at least in an America law review whike applying to law school = huge oomph
3). No serious wealth. Full ride scholarship with living allowance and flights taken care of
4) she currently has a job working as a researcher/writer at an obscene amount of money. She’s been doing that for the last three years.Between that snd y
The scholarships we pay nothing. She has only $8,000 in debt from UVA (FAFSA unsubsidized monies) and is using the writing job to pay that down[/quote][/quote]

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