<p>While you may have a better four years at NYU on emotional experience, hopefully at the same time it'll prepare you for the years afterwards... because 250K debt isn't going away anytime soon.</p>
<p>who is talking about 250k debt?</p>
<p>$220k from your original post...</p>
<p>thats for 7 years not only undergrad!!!</p>
<p>so, ascremer, looks like you made your choice. congrats! :)</p>
<p>The figure is going to be more along the lines of $300k in debt after UG and law school, unless the OP's parents kick in cash for law school. If the OP attends a top 15-20ish law school (which he or she will have to - and will have to succeed at), the OP will be looking at $60K+ per year in expenses. NYU Law, for example, has an estimated cost of $59k this year - without personal expenses. With personal expenses thrown in, it probably climbs to $65k (it's in NYC, after all). </p>
<p>No offense, ascremer, but I think you're making (have made) the wrong choice. When I say this, I'm not being all "rah rah" about UVA - I have in the past and will continue to advise people to pick "better" schools if they like them more. NYU - and, in particular, this "GSP" program - are not as good as UVA academically. Plain and simple, UVA is better and cheaper. If you were considering UVA and Penn, or UVA and Chicago, or UVA and W&M, your choice would be reasonably debatable. Currently, I find the situation almost laughable. If you want to go to school in NYC, go there for law school. At this point, given your plans, you should be trying to cut costs as much as possible and you should try to get the best academic preparation as possible. Oh well. Young people make the choices they make. I just hope this one won't come back to haunt you.</p>
<p>I saw 'quarter of a million' somewhere in the original post, but cavalier brings out the numbers better.</p>
<p>What I was trying to say is that these four years more or less set the course of your life- sure graduate school is more important or w/e but what kind grad/professional school you attend is usually determined by what you do undergrad. I don't think something as important as this should be so largely based on emotional factors as much as rational factors. That's why I feel not attending UVA (after all it's the better choice in this situation going by an academic AND financial standpoint) and going to NYU and mounting up more debt is not the best option- just because you would feel better to be in NYC for four measly more years for an extra 100K or w/e in debt I don't think is a justification for attending that school. That's not to say that you HAVE to attend the best school over anything else and have no interest in the environment, but at the least you should look down into the future and figure out exactly what you're going to be doing with having to cover the costs. However, of course, it's your decision in the end and you should make the most of it.</p>
<p>Oh, I should also add another huge point:</p>
<p>ascremer, if you think you're going to pay off your loans within your lifetime, you're likely going to have to get a corporate law job in NYC. So yea, you'll get to spend the rest of your twenties and possibly the rest of your career in Manhattan working 60-70 hours weeks. I guess there's a chance that you could take a job in another major urban area like DC or Chicago, but NYC has the highest market rate for JD's from top schools.</p>
<p>Thank you to both: cavalier and sv3a. I will be attending NYU this fall and I guess time will show if NYU is right for me or not. If it doesnt go the way I want I can always transfer to another (cheaper) school and work hard and come back to NYC for grad studies.
Thank you again!</p>
<p>Alright, it's good that at least you keep the options open. With the average debt for a borrowing law school student being 80K for grad and undergrad, I think 220-300K is going to be a big deal which needs to be looked into.l</p>