Overcoming the two-body problem

[exercise]

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Someone I know is faced with a two-body problem (privacyink.org/pdf/two_body_sigact.pdf). The wife cannot pursue education at her husband's university because of a legal rider as part of a lawsuit settlement. There are no universities in that part of their state.

However the wife can get away for 1.5 years from the area. She does not want a fully online degree but wants to get a degree from an excellent university that has a residence requirement that could be as long as 1.5 years. She has a perfect SAT score and near-perfect GPA. What universities would you suggest for her?

 

[DrMidlife]

Some context on what the wife needs to do at a university would be helpful. Listing an SAT sounds like she's a high schooler, but the two body problem implies a PhD.

If she's wanting to get prereqs done for med school, the gold standard programs are expensive one year formal structured premed postbacs such as Bryn Mawr, Goucher and Scripps. There are bazillions of other choices for getting prereqs done.

SDN has a postbac forum with tons of info here: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/forumdisplay.php?f=71

AAMC keeps a sadly inadequate list here: http://services.aamc.org/postbac/

Best of luck to you.

 

[exercise]

Some context on what the wife needs to do at a university would be helpful. Listing an SAT sounds like she's a high schooler, but the two body problem implies a PhD.

If she's wanting to get prereqs done for med school, the gold standard programs are expensive one year formal structured premed postbacs such as Bryn Mawr, Goucher and Scripps. There are bazillions of other choices for getting prereqs done.

SDN has a postbac forum with tons of info here: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/forumdisplay.php?f=71

AAMC keeps a sadly inadequate list here: http://services.aamc.org/postbac/

Best of luck to you.

Yes she has only a high school degree while he has a PhD. She needs prereqs for med school but she also needs a BA/BS degree.

 

[DrMidlife]

Sorry, I don't buy it. If this university has a "no spouses of faculty can take classes here" rule, that would be an astonishing anomaly, and tasty bait for counter-suits, particularly if it's a public school. Denial of education to a highly qualified candidate.

The two-body problem is about couples who are in the same field and can't both be supported as faculty at the same school.

Meanwhile, who, exactly, is stopping the wife from applying to the husband's school? Who, exactly, would enforce this alleged rule? (I suspect the husband.)

Also, if nobody here is trying to get into med school, I don't get why the question belongs in this forum.

Best of luck to you.

 

[exercise]

Sorry, I don't buy it. If this university has a "no spouses of faculty can take classes here" rule, that would be an astonishing anomaly, and tasty bait for counter-suits, particularly if it's a public school. Denial of education to a highly qualified candidate.

The wife cannot pursue education at her husband's university because of a legal rider as part of a lawsuit settlement. While I don't want to get into details, the settlement was over a child care center that was nearly burned down. Such settlements usually have a standard rider that the person involved will not seek employment or education with the university. And the wife indeed wants to pursue pre-medical studies.

 

[Water Top]

This is starting to sound like a plot to a good movie. Let me get comfortable, I want to see how this pans out. So who torched the daycare?

 

[theseeker4]

The wife cannot pursue education at her husband's university because of a legal rider as part of a lawsuit settlement. While I don't want to get into details, the settlement was over a child care center that was nearly burned down. Such settlements usually have a standard rider that the person involved will not seek employment or education with the university. And the wife indeed wants to pursue pre-medical studies.

So the fact that her husband is at that university isn't the issue. Instead, she was involved with the daycare fire and as a result of the suit, can't be employed or a student there? Sounds like she is going to have to move to get into a university (unless there is a time limit on the lawsuit judgment) as online classes are rarely acceptable for med school.

 

[dmf2682]

What kind of phd program doesn't require a bachelors?

 

[sirenomelia]

So are you her parole officer?

 

[tantacles]

What kind of phd program doesn't require a bachelors?

What in this thread suggests that one might not?

 

[dmf2682]

What in this thread suggests that one might not?

Post 3

 

[MT Headed]

I'm confused. Is this a two body problem or not? Were the terms of the lawsuit settlement such that if her husband gains employment elsewhere, then the university would gladly accept the girl that tried to burn down the university in the first place?

 

[DrMidlife]

Two-body has nothing at all to do with losing institutional access rights due to a role in a daycare fire. Apparently the story has nothing at all to do with the husband being faculty, except that faculty usually comes with spousal/family enrollment perks.

This is a one-body problem.

 

[exercise]

Were the terms of the lawsuit settlement such that if her husband gains employment elsewhere, then the university would gladly accept the girl that tried to burn down the university in the first place?

I am giving up on this thread because no one's answering the question I asked. The woman didn't burn down the university. The university nearly burned down the child care center and nearly killed her two children along with 15 or so other children.

 

[pkwraith]

You can't get a bachelors in 1.5 years or less.

 

[MT Headed]

Okay it is starting to make more sense now. What do you mean by a '1.5 year residence requirement' in your original post?

That the university would only demand in state tuition after living in the state for 1.5 years?

Or that a university would be willing to grant a bachelors degree with 1.5 years of normal class attendance and the other 2.5 years of online classes?

 

[exercise]

Or that a university would be willing to grant a bachelors degree with 1.5 years of normal class attendance and the other 2.5 years of online classes?

Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you.

 

[tkim]

I am giving up on this thread because no one's answering the question I asked. The woman didn't burn down the university. The university nearly burned down the child care center and nearly killed her two children along with 15 or so other children.

So this is really a condition of accepting terms from a lawsuit preventing the wife from attending that university.

Didn't have to mention 'two-body' restriction. You are simply looking for a school that requires an 18 month or less 'residency' requirement in order to graduate with a degree from that school, with the bulk of courses and credits taken online and possibly transfered.

 

[tkim]

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/de...-degrees/online-options-residency-requirement

 

[TriagePreMed]

Am I supposed to believe there's not even one community college either? Max out the CC units and then spend the 1.5 years finishing the BA/BS somewhere else.

 

[tantacles]

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Huh? SHE has a high school degree. HE has a PhD. How does that indicate that a PhD program doesn't require an undergraduate degree?

 

[dmf2682]

Huh? SHE has a high school degree. HE has a PhD. How does that indicate that a PhD program doesn't require an undergraduate degree?

ok so I misread the post. no need to go all GOP 2012 on me

 

[tantacles]

ok so I misread the post. no need to go all GOP 2012 on me

That's a cruelty I wouldn't unleash on my worst enemy.

 

[exercise]

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/de...-degrees/online-options-residency-requirement

Thank you - I know about this but they graduate less than 1% of the ALB students they admit, to keep the Harvard name sacred, so this one's a no-go.

 

[dmf2682]

That's a cruelty I wouldn't unleash on my worst enemy.

Good to know. Are you pronounced like tentacles or like a Greek philosopher?

 

[Jennet]

Good to know. Are you pronounced like tentacles or like a Greek philosopher?

I thought Tantacles was a Greek hero but maybe not...it sounds Greek though, amiright?

 

[dmf2682]

I thought Tantacles was a Greek hero but maybe not...it sounds Greek though, amiright?

Google doesn't know of a tantacles. But might know of tantalus.

 

[vc7777]

Good afternoon folks! Let me remind you that we should be civil in this thread! 🙂 And please: stay on topic. Take care!

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[tantacles]

Good to know. Are you pronounced like tentacles or like a Greek philosopher?

Philosopher! But as a rule, I don't correct people unless they ask.

Google doesn't know of a tantacles. But might know of tantalus.

Bingo! Chosen because I like things that end in "klees" and "uh-culls" equally. Chesticles, John Cleese, Receptacles . . . It's all good.

Tantalus, though . . . He's real. Real things are a little too . . . real. if you know what I mean. This is the interwebz.

 

[tkim]

Thank you - I know about this but they graduate less than 1% of the ALB students they admit, to keep the Harvard name sacred, so this one's a no-go.

Uh, yeah.

 

[tkim]

Thank you - I know about this but they graduate less than 1% of the ALB students they admit, to keep the Harvard name sacred, so this one's a no-go.

Uh, yeah, ok.

 

[Water Top]

So why did the school burn down their own building?

 

[tkim]

So why did the school burn down their own building?

Obviously so they wouldn't have to provide daycare. Think man!