Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

From R&T and can confirm. But my colleagues can attest to it when I say that the bonus isn’t spectacular.

No I can’t

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Agreed. If it is not for all the people in the lower tier schools, I would not have been working at a small firm for the past two years despite graduating from a first tier school. Honestly I believe we obviously have better capacity and skill set and opportunities should be given to us. Lateral hires to big four and international firms would have been more simple for us if it is not for these under-performers.

They should only have the first tier graduates fighting for the same jobs from the outset.

Society is fair, the high achievers and the qualified ones like people from the higher tier schools should not be undermined by those underachievers.

I empathy.

Originally Posted by Harvard grad

Ya i have no time to argue with you. I am busy being set for life as I am a Harvard grad. All of you plebians asking for salary figures please go get a Harvard grad degree as I am immune to the job market and do not care about the unemployed persons from lower tier schools

Great work Harvard grad.
People keep saying connections can go to Harvard.
How come I still hear of stories where very connected people cannot even qualify for Harvard LLM.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Great work Harvard grad.
People keep saying connections can go to Harvard.
How come I still hear of stories where very connected people cannot even qualify for Harvard LLM.

Not legacy/not connected enough/never donate enough/academic referral not strong enough (you do know that whoever writes your referral matters right, particularly if Prof A is friends with Prof B at Harvard)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not legacy/not connected enough/never donate enough/academic referral not strong enough (you do know that whoever writes your referral matters right, particularly if Prof A is friends with Prof B at Harvard)

Legacy is 34% acceptance rate, higher than University of Zimbabwe. Just apply 3 times see you heng or not.

To know if someone got into Harvard by merit or non-merit is really easy. If they got a First at an academically rigorous university (most of the applicant pool), definitely by merit. This is like the Poster Boy of Harvard. Everywhere else, topped the cohort i.e. my First is the best First, that is by merit. This is also Poster Boy.

High 2:1 from Ox/Cam/Ivy scale okay maybe.

The rest is murky, and we may never know if they don't tell you. Although, if you size someone up it's easy to tell whether they are true geniuses or make belief.

That is not to say they are stupid or incompetent. Just not geniuses. Ordinary Joes.

#quora: How do you tell if someone has a High IQ

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not legacy/not connected enough/never donate enough/academic referral not strong enough (you do know that whoever writes your referral matters right, particularly if Prof A is friends with Prof B at Harvard)

But my friend said it was a really top person who wrote the reference for him.
Can’t say who in this forum. But someone very eminent

Originally Posted by Unregistered

But my friend said it was a really top person who wrote the reference for him.
Can’t say who in this forum. But someone very eminent

Nice, congrats. That's usually the case. I mean, you got a FCH so did everyone else.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

But my friend said it was a really top person who wrote the reference for him.
Can’t say who in this forum. But someone very eminent

Also, yeah your reference really matters. It's not purely meritorious since in one aspect you need a really good reference. If you donate a large sum I wonder if that counts as legacy.

If you watched Social Network, it's easy to tell who got in by merit and who got in by legacy.

Does SMU sponsor their high performing summa graduates to Harvard for LLM bond free?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Does SMU sponsor their high performing summa graduates to Harvard for LLM bond free?

Haha they'd be making a business loss as SMU has its own array of programmes.

Anyway that'd be so cool