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Trying to decide between these 2 schools. The COA is done with LS22's spreadsheet. I'll be financing the entirety of the amounts below.

Cornell: Total COA 212,339
USC: Total COA 246,312

Have taken LSAT 3 times.

I'm from the midwest and would ideally want to be in either Chicago or New York but would consider DC also. Basically I just want a big legal market. I want to go into either biglaw or try for a clerkship and then go into big law.

I tried negotiating with Cornell but they didn't up their offer. Remaining on a couple wait lists for possible renegotiation with Cornell.

koval wrote:USC: Total COA 246,312

uva or usc? post history points both ways so thought it was worth asking

sprezz wrote:

koval wrote:USC: Total COA 246,312

uva or usc? post history points both ways so thought it was worth asking

Withdrawing from USC, got UVA today so I subbed them out. Ended up going with Cornell. Just needed to make sure I wasn't making a bad value judgement.

Once you subtract UVA’s fake jobs (they call it School Funded) Cornell is a much better choice. And it costs less. Whence comes the cliché, less is more!