<p>Is it worth it to pay more for a school that is more academically-prestigious? Or schould I save money for law school?</p>
<p>So far I'm into:
University of Washington
University of Chapel Hill*
University of Miami (24k)
University of Michigan*
University of Alabama (full tuition)
Clemson University (14k)
Northeastern University (17k) (declined already)
University of Maryland</p>
<p>The asterisks are the schools where I might pay more to attend.</p>
<p>I should also be in to all four other schools I applied to (not to be arrogant):
University of Virginia*
UCLA
UCSD (never would go to)
Ithaca College</p>
<p>Opinions, please?
I want to be a history major, hopefully doubling in communications.</p>
<p>Can you afford it and law school? Law school is generally really expensive, and financial aid opportunities are less plentiful than they are at the undergraduate level. Personally, if I was planning to go to grad school of any sort, I would save the money for that and go to the best undergrad school that was within my budget. Prestige really isn’t that important for law school since they’ll be looking primarily at GPA and LSAT.</p>
<p>Are you talking about taking on debt for undergrad when you have law school to also pay for? If so, that is not a good idea. You could run out of borrowing power for law school if you borrow for undergrad.</p>
<p>Are you talking about saving your parents some money for undergrad so that they can help you with law school costs?</p>
<p>All of your schools can prepare you for a top tier law school. Bama has a Tier 1 law school (tied with UNC-CH according to USNews). And, it is reasonably priced for OOS students.</p>
<p>You’re in California. I’m a huge fan of some of the other schools on your list, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a reason to turn down UCLA unless you really, really don’t like the city or university.</p>
<p>If money is an issue (and it clearly is, since you’re worried about funds for law school) it doesn’t make sense to pay OOS tuition to any school since you’ve been accepted to a good in-state U where you live.</p>
<p>yeah if you are in-state, UCLA and UCSD are great schools and you should save the money and stay in-state or go somewhere that is cheap and save up for law school</p>
<p>*you should save the money and stay in-state or go somewhere that is cheap and save up for law school *</p>
<p>True…</p>
<p>You obviously don’t want to go to UCSD, but what are your feelings about UCLA? </p>
<p>How much will it cost to go to UCLA? I imagine about $28-30k per year as an in-state student with the predicted fees increases. Would that be right?</p>
<p>How much would it cost for your other schools? </p>
<p>I know Bama would be cheap for you since you have free tuition there, but you’d still have room, board, books, travel, etc - which will be about $13k-14k depending on frequency of travel.</p>
<p>Okay, thank you, you guys. (: Yeah, my sister goes to UCLA and I visit her all the time. I love it there (although, ironically, I’m a die-hard USC fan). However, I was kind of thinking of going to school farther away. However, I guess I could always wait for law school to go out of state. (:</p>
<p>I don’t qualify for financial aid, so saving for law school would probably be a good thing. It makes sense too. I mean, my dad went to Cal State Fullerton and was still able to go to UPenn for law. I think I’ll probably stay in-state, now. Haha.</p>