As @CCName1 and @Gatormama mentioned if your known goal is law school there are a few things to consider.
First a prestigious undergrad school with a cost of 300K or 360K will not be as important as a great GPA and LSAT score. Also if your goal is not working in a “big law” firm as @Gatormama indicated her son doesn’t want. The consideration will be different.
Being a social warrior, a prosecutor or a public defender brings a lot of different consideration of the right law school. Similarly wanting to work in a particular state or city also creates different law school choices
As @CCName1 stated there is a lot of law school merit money at all levels of law schools. The reality is that all law schools are looking to improve their USNews and World Report rankings. And those rankings are mostly based on 2 things. LSAT scores and GPA. All schools are looking for students who help them increase the medium scores in those statistics because that helps them improve in their rankings.
So generally if you have over the 75% for the laws schools GPA and LSAT that school is likely to offer you merit money.
By way of example me D had a 4.0 from Clemson and a 168 LSAT. She applied to a bunch of school. Got full tuitions scholarships to Minnesota, Arizona State, University of Florida. Got lesser merit at UGA, Villanova, and Richmond.
She got waitlisted at Umich, UT Austin, UVA Vandy and GW. I would note she applied late to all schools. My sense of things is that the earlier you apply the better for admission and better for merit.
My guess is that she also would have ultimately been admitted to one of waitlist schools has she been been admitted but probably no merit money at those schools.
I know lots of law students in Pittsburgh where I practice where lots of students who are happy to practice here that have lesser stats but over the 75%tile for those schools will get lots of merit money.
So there will be lots of options. But study hard make great grades, get a great LSAT and you should be fine.
The other advise I would give, which is the same I told my daughter when she told me for the first time after her Sophomore year in college that she wanted to go to law school. Only go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. Law school is too expensive and difficult to go as a place holder or something to do because a college graduate doesn’t know what else to do after graduation.