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Comment author: Perplexed 17 February 2011 06:15:12PM 2 points [-]

professionals of high rank and/or expertise without a university degree, but this is absolutely unimaginable in law or medicine.

I believe you are wrong about law - at least in many states in the US. Though you certainly won't become a partner at a top firm without college and law degrees.

Comment author: Vladimir_M 17 February 2011 06:45:16PM *  2 points [-]

Perplexed:

I believe you are wrong about law - at least in many states in the US.

I stand corrected, then. (And I'm happy to see another example of historical vestiges that still have some life in them!) I was going by the Canadian regulations, which allow no such thing.

Of course, even in the U.S. it's nowadays a rare thing, and as you say, it's not a realistic path towards high status in the profession. Whereas in the computer industry, both Microsoft and Apple were founded by college dropouts (and the latter is still headed by one).

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