Chapter 28 Part IV: The ratio of 1 million yuan to 200,000 yuan

Dear Teacher Xu: I am a girl and graduated from the German Department of the university in 2001.Because I want to concentrate on preparing for the LSAT exam and go abroad, I have no intention of working, so instead of staying in Beijing, I returned home and did some temporary translation. At the end of 2002, I took the LSAT for the second time, but this time the results were not satisfactory. It has always been my ideal to be a lawyer. After graduation, I gave up my job to prepare for the exam (and in a bad state). Now it seems that this approach is not wise enough, and the result is not ideal. There is indeed a gap between my strength and my goal.In the whole process, I sacrificed a lot (not looking for a job, enduring loneliness, disappointment in love and even family relationship, etc.).If this contact fails again, I will not be able to study law school for the time being, but I will still keep in mind and do everything possible to achieve this goal.

Frankly, right now I feel like a failure.It’s been 18 months since I graduated, I don’t have much work experience, and I’ve worked so hard to get such a low score. Obviously, it’s impossible to get into a good school; Sacrifice so much for it, it is not necessary to test it.No good work experience and no good grades, both failed, and lonely, look at my life.I don't seem to have what I should have at this age.I can't and am ashamed to say this to people. I was very hesitant, if there is a school willing to take me this time, and a wealthy relative is willing and able to support me, should I go or not?I don't want to go to a law school with poor employment opportunities, but it doesn't seem easy to transfer to a good school after a year.People around me think that as long as possible, go out, no matter what school you study first and then seek flexibility, don't rush to get it right, and emphasize that girls can't afford to be delayed due to their age.

But Mr. Xu, I really don't want to go abroad just to get a degree. I not only want to be a lawyer, but also want to become the best lawyer between China and the United States with my Chinese background. And I am willing to pay a lot for my goal.I don't know if the JD program of those common law schools is really valuable from the perspective of career development.If there is no value, I must and will take the LSAT again, and I must get a high score before contacting. Teacher Xu, I look forward to your quick reply, I will do it.And I will share my future happiness and success with you as a thank you and respect for the work you have started.

Lauer Dear Lauer: 1. Presentation of the question: In March, I gave you an answer to your above-mentioned letter: don’t go to the top of the horns of a famous school. If you can get the admission notice of any school’s law school this year, of course you can go.Because you have paid too much for admission, don't wait any longer. In April, I was on the phone with you and did several visa consultations.When I was consulting about visas, I discovered that you have fallen into a huge black hole that you cannot get out of: your family is not rich, and you need more than 100,000 US dollars to study a law degree in the United States for three years.And the American relatives you pin your hopes on can't actually give you hard dollars.

In May, I was wondering if you got your visa.I am not worried that you will not be able to get a visa. What I am worried about is the difficulty of survival and development after you get a visa.Because I think that your beautiful-looking study abroad plan is a wrong design.You set your goals too expensive.Too expensive for you to afford. I admit that I inadvertently fell into a trap while answering your technical questions during March and April.The trap is: In order to satisfy your thirst for discussing the facts, I forgot to talk about the root cause of the problem of life design. I should but have not reminded you in time. If you can’t get a visa, it may not be a bad thing for you!

My New Oriental life consulting work started from doing visa consulting.Because at that time I discovered that countless students who were rejected by the US visa officer should not have gone to the United States in the first place!There are indeed huge loopholes in their education and career design.This loophole is not only unconvincing to the visa officer, but also the international students themselves know it is not possible. Many visa refusals are actually just a correction of the unconsciousness of Chinese students studying abroad.Although the refusal of a visa is unreasonable in many cases, some of them do contain refusal of unreasonable factors in the study abroad plan.

Sometimes, the visa officer and I are almost on the same front... So, when I finished talking with you about the visa issue and felt extremely depressed, I suddenly realized that your visa is difficult, and it is really a problem with the goal you set for yourself to "go to the United States to study law". Is this goal reasonable?Is this goal too expensive for your affordability?Is this goal too heavy for your youth to bear?Apart from applying to a law school in the United States to realize your desire to be a lawyer, do you have a better plan for your life design? I think this is where you really need me, not a technical commentary on the hard road you've been fighting for a long time.This is something I don't like.I don't like to counsel an unreasonable life plan and make it come true.

You can continue to pursue your student visa to study law in the United States. After you get the visa, I will not stop you from going to the United States...Let’s talk about it after you go to the United States...Although this is a very outdated and helpless way of thinking about going abroad. 2. Reasonable planning: But you must seriously think about the life plan I proposed.You "not only want to be a lawyer, but also want to become the best lawyer between China and the United States with your Chinese background, and I am willing to pay a lot for my goal." I support your ambition, but I oppose your plan, especially when your ambition is "to become the best lawyer between China and the United States with your own Chinese background", your plan is simply absurd.

According to this ambition, that is to become an excellent lawyer between China and the United States, then when you graduate from university, you should first take the exam for a master's degree in law at Peking University, Renmin University of China, or China University of Political Science and Law.It is worth celebrating for this clear career goal to take the postgraduate entrance examination! With your learning ability and Peking University background, it shouldn't be a problem to pass these exams.I know that several language students who graduated from ordinary colleges and universities in other provinces have been admitted to the graduate schools of the law departments of the above-mentioned excellent schools, studying for a master's degree in law, and pursuing their dreams of becoming lawyers.

After graduating with a Master of Laws, you can take the bar exam and work as a lawyer in China.Moreover, based on your language advantages, you can also work in those foreign-related law firms in Beijing.Quite a few western law firms have opened offices in China.If you work hard here for a while, even if you don't fall in love with a handsome male lawyer, you will have an eternal relationship with Chinese and Western legal careers, and become a confident, upward, and promising female barrister in Beijing. America of course.At this time, it is very simple for you to go to the United States: go to the United States to study LLM in law instead of JD in law. Compared with JD undergraduate law, LLM Master of Laws has two advantages: first, it takes only one year instead of JD's three years; second, LLM has more opportunities to get scholarships than JD, even if there is no scholarship, LLM The tuition fee is only one year, and the tuition fee of LLM is lower than that of JD, so you can easily afford it.

Going to the United States to study for a Master of Laws LLM means that you can take the qualification to practice law in the United States. Although not all states, after all, many states such as California and New York can take the test.In this way, you will immediately become the "best lawyer between China and the United States" in your dream. We will not talk about the best and the worst for the time being, but at least you can easily have the practicing qualifications of the two countries and you can fly in your dreams , walking in the clouds. After finishing your master's degree in China, you can go to the United States immediately, or you can work in a law firm for a few years before leaving.I met a New Oriental student in 1999. He himself did not study law but economics, but he worked in the Beijing office of a well-known American law firm with an annual salary of 300,000 RMB. Therefore, if you study for a master’s degree in law in China, in fact, even the money problem can be solved calmly, and you will not suffer from destructive pressure on your body and mind in the face of three years of youth and hundreds of thousands of dollars.The principle of life planning also includes not setting goals so expensive that you cannot bear them. As a principle, I encourage you to work for a few years before leaving after obtaining a master's degree in China.Because maybe based on the busyness and success of work at that time, you don't want to leave.The success of many young lawyers in Beijing has far surpassed those Chinese students who have obtained the qualifications of American lawyers and practiced in the United States.In the legal industry, which the Chinese government allowed to open up first, the young generation of barristers cultivated by China is radiating great success, attracting countless foreign students who graduated from European and American law schools to join in. See, if you go this way, you won't be in the mud you're in at all.Your quagmire has several characteristics: first, there is no full-time job, which seriously affects your self-confidence; second, there is no guarantee of income; third, there is no industry experience (it doesn’t matter if you don’t have wealth, you can’t do without experience! ) Fourth, the goal of going to the United States to study JD is too high and too big, and the cost and time are not as simple as studying law in China-going out to study LLM-and becoming a lawyer in China, so that you can perfectly control your own destiny. Having said that, going to the United States to study JD after graduation can be said to be the most ideal way to become a lawyer.But the most ideal is not necessarily the most realistic.My objection to the collective unconsciousness of studying abroad includes the opposition to this kind of unconsciousness that is difficult to be seen through—desperately pursuing a "best degree", but the best degree often becomes divorced from reality, too expensive, too difficult, A trap that creates a major dilemma in life.Struggle also needs to do what you can, which is the truth (it's a pity that I didn't meet me when I graduated!). Don't say it's too cruel for me to ask this question at this time. In fact, I can't help to ensure that every student can choose their own future in the correct way to go abroad, but I will at least try my best to convey my views to as many people as possible. Every struggling reader.Let science design the tap water of life and water thousands of students. I know you will agree with the above analysis of hindsight, and you will ask me: "What should I do now?" 1. I still wish you a smooth visa this time.For this goal, you have paid too much.If you can get a visa, your problem will immediately become a problem of how to survive and develop in the United States.You don't need my concern. 2. If you cannot get a visa.I encourage you to get to work right away. 3. After you start working, if the lawyer is really your loyal love and not a business affair just to go to the United States, I encourage you to take the domestic law master's degree. 4. After being admitted to a domestic law master, consider when to go to the United States to study LLM according to the situation.Make studying abroad an easy comparison rather than a back-and-forth struggle. Table for comparison between the two: If you start studying domestic law masters in 2004, you will graduate in 2006, pass the bar exam, and get the Chinese lawyer qualification in 2007.Your total cost will not exceed 200,000 RMB. If you get a visa this year to go to the United States to study JD, you also graduated in 2006, spent a year to take the bar exam, and you also got the American bar in 2007. The timetable is basically the same as above.And you probably need to pay at least 1 million RMB. This is the ratio of one million to two hundred thousand! The future of these two degrees is similar in terms of earning potential.The time to get the second lawyer qualification is similar.But in terms of the effect of guaranteeing success, winning easily, and getting twice the result with half the effort, it is much more reasonable than your current plan. Of course, you still have countless other choices, just because you chose "go to the United States to study JD" at the beginning, which blocked your eyes.I won't say much here.But it is this choice of yours that has forced you into the path of Mount Hua and has become the source of all your current distress. If you can't get a visa, follow the plan I give you now, listen to me, there is nothing wrong! Should you still go to the US if you get a visa? --I have no idea. Xu Xiaoping