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Occasionally, my "Excelsior College" Google alert turns up something really interesting. Today, it told me about an Excelsior College grad who just joined a big, prestigious law firm (Burr & Forman) after attending a Tier 1 law school (University of Alabama) and graduating magna cum laude. I'm not considering law school, but it is encouraging to hear that an EC degree has that kind of credibility. Here's his bio, complete with Excelsior College degree listed:
Daniel B. Snyder - Attorney Information - Burr & Forman LLP - Results Matter. Congratulations, Daniel Snyder!
Kelly
BS, History - Excelsior College - 2011
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There was a member here who got a big three degree (don't remember which school) and then got into a top thirty law school. This was not too long ago so I doubt it was this same man.
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He must have had very good grades and either excellent interpersonal skills or connections to get on law review and to clerk for a judge. TBH, I don't see what EC had to do with it.
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Yenisei Wrote:He must have had very good grades and either excellent interpersonal skills or connections to get on law review and to clerk for a judge. TBH, I don't see what EC had to do with it.
You need a bachelors to get into law school (at least for American Law Schools). While not everyone can do it, Scholar was simply saying that, even though Big 3 (and other DL degrees) are often looked down upon by the closed-minded, that they can be used as the launching pad to get into such positions.
That is what EC had to do with it.
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TMW2010 Wrote:You need a bachelors to get into law school (at least for American Law Schools). While not everyone can do it, Scholar was simply saying that, even though Big 3 (and other DL degrees) are often looked down upon by the closed-minded, that they can be used as the launching pad to get into such positions.
That is what EC had to do with it.
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Nothing against EC, but unless he had a bunch of orphan credits from many different sources and thus went with EC for that reason, they were incidental to Snyder's success, although sure, by awarding distance learning bachelor's degrees, they do put you in position to go to grad school.
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