Entertainment Law, Help Me Decide Forum

[hopeful94]

Hey all! Posting for a non-TLS friend. She wants to pursue a career in entertainment law, specifically music law. She is currently working at an entertainment law firm and probably has a job lined up there coming out of law school. She is based is LA, and from Chicago, not opposed to either city or New York. Her current options are:

Chicago, $45,000 scholarship
Cornell, full-tuition scholarship
Michigan, $135,000 scholarship
Northwestern, $90,000 scholarship
UC Berkeley, $80,000 scholarship
UCLA, $110,000 scholarship

Any/all opinions welcome. Would love to know whether program strength beats prestige for some of the lower ranked schools.

[HYPSM]

Cornell or Berkeley. Berkeley if she is OK with debt.

[cron1834]

Does your friend have a rich family, rich partner, or an independent source of wealth? If not, Cornell hands down.

[hopeful94]

No rich family or partner. She does want to be somewhere that will help her network with professionals in the entertainment law industry. So she would rather something in a city, or at the very least something that is not so remote that she couldn't do any internship or externship stuff during the semester.

[nosurprises23]

Probably Berkeley since that's the the best school that also has a very good entertainment law program, but if your friend's debt averse I'd say Cornell, they also have an outstanding entertainment law program (somehow).

[Mikey]

Cornell or Berkeley.

[cron1834]

People who are saying Berkeley--go calculate the COA and then reassess. $80k is not that much at a T14, especially for someone who a) wants a unicorn job and b) may have a job lined up. Why would you literally double your debt load to go to a peer school? Bc of a specialty program? That seems dumb.