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LSAT: 162, GPA: 3.85, very strong softs

Deposited at USC with a total scholarship 105K in April, but got accepted off the waitlist at Georgetown Law today... Georgetown called me yesterday and I clearly told them I would not accept an offer without a scholarship so I am assuming they are giving me some money (I find out for sure on Monday).... I know everyone is going to say "go where you want to practice law" but can someone give me some other advice? It would be a lot easier for me to live in D.C. (I'm from NYC, I know the city, have friends there, etc.) but I am extremely concerned about digging myself into a debt hole at GT that I can never get out of.


SIDE NOTE: I just retook the June LSAT and I am waiting for my scores... I was scoring 167-171 on practice tests, but I messed up a game really bad on the test so I'm assuming closer to a 165. GT is going to want an answer before I get my scores

Waitlisted at: UCLA, Cornell, and Michigan still

When is the deadline to respond to Georgetown? Definitely going to need COAs to evaluate.

Nobody can give you a helpful answer until we know what your Georgetown scholarship is.

What do you want to do with your career?

When negotiating with Georgetown, it helped me to call their office of financial aid about a scholarship. After explaining the situation to them and hanging up, I got an email with a scholarship offer within an hour.

Thank you all for help (especially about calling the financial aid office) ... I will update the post when I get the official offer. I am just a little anxious and wanted to get any advice I could as soon as I could because from what I have heard they give you about 1 week to reply.

As of now I plan on getting into big law and the BL stats for both these schools appear exactly the same. My aunt works for a top 100 firm in NYC that has offices is DC and LA so I hope I have a little better prospects than the rest of the law students that all say the same exact thing.