<p>@siliconvalleymom: Good point about contacting the schools directly for law school admissions data. Real numbers might (a) convince this student that they really do need to shoot higher, or (b) allay any fears that this is a problem.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids: The Tier 3 National University is actually the #3 school in the state. However, the #1 and #2 schools are possibly reaches, are hours away and cost more than even the #3 school.</p>
<p>The EFC is probably low, but the parents aren’t even able to help out to that extent. The reason the EFC isn’t 100% certain is that while the family is lower-middle class, there are former spouses - and I’ve heard they sometimes look at their income.</p>
<p>The student knows they want to go to a “good” law school but probably doesn’t know exactly how to quantify that. I’m trying to get information because this student probably isn’t getting good advice about higher education. Most of the people in this student’s life don’t have university degrees at all.</p>
<p>So a related question is: How good of a law school do you have to go to in order to be hired at the better jobs in the legal industry?</p>