So far, the schools I'm considering that I've gotten into are:
- Washington & Lee (I received a near full scholarship so my debt for all three years would be around $44,000 with rent and living expenses)
- Indiana Bloomington (OOS so ~$90,000 with rent/living expenses)
- UCONN (IS with a 75% scholarship, so ~ $53,000 with rent and living expenses, even less if I decide to live at home and commute an hour to class)
- American ($115,000 debt - it kills me because I received my acceptance after the need-based grant application deadline, so I couldn't apply, but that means this number might go down :/ Also I know they aren't well-regarded overall, but they have a top 10 international law program, and my cousin who graduated last summer has a job at a big law firm in NYC now)
- George Mason ($78,000 debt)
I'm waitlisted at WUISL but I'm not expecting to get off it. I still haven't heard back from Boston College, Fordham and GW, but considering I got rejected from my alma mater today (William & Mary) I don't think I can count on them :/. The debt totals are what I'll have to take out in loans - I already subtracted my scholarships plus the $30,000 I have saved up, and my parents aren't helping me.
I did decently on my LSAT (164, but that was a retake: I got a 156 on the original) but my undergrad GPA is not the best: 3.02. For the first two years of college, my dad was incredibly sick so I constantly was going home to check on him/was generally stressed out, so I got pretty bad grades (I had like a 2.5 for those first two) but after he got better, they improved dramatically (the lowest I've had since is a 3.45). Also, for those of you telling me to retake, please don't, I already know my biggest problem is my GPA and I can't quite fix that, but a 164 is really close to what I was scoring on all of my practice exams (167 - 169, highest) so I don't think I can do better :/
I wish I had someone to talk to about this stuff, but tbh my family knows nothing about international law and AU's deadline is coming up soon so I have to make a decision



Also should mention that I want to try and transfer to GTown for 2L, but am of course not depending on it to happen