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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:48 pm
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Good scholarship money from each school:
Emory -total COA - 40K or less
Virginia - total COA - 60K
My SO has a job offer in both Charlottesville and ATL, so there will be no COL and we will be able to pay down a good deal of the tuition while I am in school, so the actual COA may be less at both schools. It will, however, always cost 20K more to attend UVA.
Now, ATL is my target market. We have friends and family in the area. I'd be okay with some other southern cities (Nashville, Chattanooga, Charlotte, etc.) as well.
I have a great offer at Emory which will offer me both a guaranteed legal job during law school that won't specifically guarantee me a job post-graduation but will offer me great connections and networking in the ATL market.
My career goals are mid/big law then a jump over into something like in house/non-profit/government. I do fully intend to start in a mid/big law firm, however.
The question is, do I pass up a good school in my exact target market for the opportunities available at UVA? I love the potential the UVA degree gives me, but will in place any better in my target market? and is this worth the extra 20k? plus the intangibles of being near friends/family, the connections, and likely not having to live elsewhere for my 2L summer away from my SO?
More money from Emory would clinch it, but I doubt that's going to happen...
Good scholarship money from each school:
Emory -total COA - 40K or less
Virginia - total COA - 60K
My SO has a job offer in both Charlottesville and ATL, so there will be no COL and we will be able to pay down a good deal of the tuition while I am in school, so the actual COA may be less at both schools. It will, however, always cost 20K more to attend UVA.
Now, ATL is my target market. We have friends and family in the area. I'd be okay with some other southern cities (Nashville, Chattanooga, Charlotte, etc.) as well.
I have a great offer at Emory which will offer me both a guaranteed legal job during law school that won't specifically guarantee me a job post-graduation but will offer me great connections and networking in the ATL market.
My career goals are mid/big law then a jump over into something like in house/non-profit/government. I do fully intend to start in a mid/big law firm, however.
The question is, do I pass up a good school in my exact target market for the opportunities available at UVA? I love the potential the UVA degree gives me, but will in place any better in my target market? and is this worth the extra 20k? plus the intangibles of being near friends/family, the connections, and likely not having to live elsewhere for my 2L summer away from my SO?
More money from Emory would clinch it, but I doubt that's going to happen...