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No, if you didn't graduate then you didn't graduate. Bragging about your drop-out status reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes.

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It's not bragging, it's explaining where those years went. And doing publishable work does carry merit, thesis or no thesis.

When you say "drop-out from Hogwarts University" you are appropriating the Hogwarts brand to yourself. When you say "ABD PhD" you are misleading people into thinking that you're some kind of a PhD. This is doing unjustice to the people who actually did the work to get a PhD from said university. If you don't have a PhD, don't put the words PhD in your bio.

you realize a PhD isn't something you're just awarded for showing up for 4 years? depending on the circumstances, how much a dick your adviser is, w/e.. at some point any sane reasonable person not trying to dedicate their life to acadamia can and should absolutely abandon the program.

I think to "do injustice" to someone requires an actual causal relationship with the claimed victims.

Come on. It literally says "drop out" - no reasonable person could possibly believe the guy has a PhD, and being ABD is a hell of lot more than 99% of the population. Not to mention the fact that UVA is a good school generally so I can't imagine it's a cakewalk to even get admitted to their doctoral programs.

If he didn't mention an n-year gap in his background you'd say he was trying to hide the fact he was a drop out. You're just looking for something to complain about.

I finished my Bachelor's many years after I left school. I still had to list the school and the timeframe because otherwise I'd get questions about. I wasn't able to just say "I went to school but didn't graduate, but I don't want to appropriate the brand of my former university!" That's idiotic.

CV is bragging? I write in my CV what I did. When I studied something for few years and then dropped out for better opportunity, I write that in my CV.

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