<p>*Or you might consider how much monthly payments will be on $25K in loans. *</p>
<p>This isn’t the debt that will be the problem…the additional LAW SCHOOL debt will be the problem…once she adds this debt to law school debt the amount will be huge. Newish lawyers do not make a lot of money to pay back big debt. Many newish lawyers struggle.</p>
<p>UVA is great, but so is UM-CP honors…and it’s location near DC is also good.</p>
<p>However, if you could work over the summer to reduce that undergrad debt, then UVA wouldn’t require much debt at all. Can you do that? Can you also work a bit during the school year for pocket money? Will your parents give you pocket money or will you have to earn that? If you don’t know, you need to find that out now.</p>