<p>So, I am very interested in working for a non-profit when I'm older (I'm a h.s. senior).</p>
<p>I am probably going to go to Ohio State and major inn finance and accounting and would like to work in the high finance world for a few years and then branch on to something. </p>
<p>Eventually, while I am still young I would like to branch into the non-profit side. Having a finance/accounting background (I'm thinking about getting my CPA as well) but I think a law degree would help as well. I am interested in law and have thought about being a lawyer and it would be cool to work towards a cause as a lawyer. </p>
<p>My mom has a cousin that is pretty successful lawyer who started his own (and runs) non-profit but I don't really know or heard of anyone else that works for a non-profit as a lawyer.</p>
<p>So is it common for non-profits to have lawyers? I guess a lot of the big ones would have to, but I am not sure what my niche is yet. I guess I am most passionate about stopping human trafficking, but I'd almost be more useful trying to get a job in the FBI haha. </p>
<p>And I was also wondering about law School (hence why I'm posting this here haha). </p>
<p>I know a lot of people always say go to a T14 school or bust...but for me it would not matter as much, right? It doesn't really matter where I go to school as long as I pass the bar, I'm a lawyer and I won't really be clamoring after those $120,00+ jobs, but a non-profit one instead. Not sure if that made any sense, but this is what I am getting at. I am relatively intelligent, get good grades, solid SAT score, a lot of extracurriculars, go into some nice colleges, but gonna save money and go to OSU. Using a formula found online, it predicted that my LSAT would be a 170 based off of my SAT score. Yes, I know this is not a highly scientific way to do this or that it absolutely will happen or come close to that, but I think that it means that if I bust my butt studying for the LSAT I have the potential to score in 165-175 range, no? </p>
<p>Which means I might be in range, depending on my GPA of course, for some big merit money at a lower T14 school or money at a top 25 school. Which would be the way to go for me, graduate with the least amount of debt since I'm planning on going to into non-profit and not exactly gonna be raking in the big bucks. </p>
<p>But apparently some schools have really good loan forgiveness programs if you work in a "public interest" type job(is that what its called?). Is that something I should look into? </p>
<p>So I guess my question boils down to is that, do you hear of a lot of lawyers that go into non-profit and I should be chasing the big merit awards and school prestige does not matter for me? </p>
<p>Thanks. I'm just a confused high school senior trying to map part of his future haha.</p>