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[TLSModBot]

Yeah don't do this. I am finishing up the evening program at GULC at sticker and it is dumb. I was dumb. Even with little actual debt and Biglaw lined up.

Do you not want to be a lawyer? Graduating with almost no debt and a biglaw job hardly seems "dumb."

1. It still cost 150K. If I wasn't stuck in DC (job, wife, mortgage) I could've applied broader and possibly gotten $ somewhere

2. GULC part time doesn't get scholarship money. If I had applied full time there is a chance I would've saved more money in scholarships than I made from keeping my job. No guarantee on that but if I could do it over I would've tried.

3. Getting a Biglaw job is what I wanted out of law school, and I'm very fortunate to have made that happen. But getting a good outcome does not retroactively make the decision worth it, especially not when giving advice to others who may not end up so lucky. You have about a 50% chance of making it in Biglaw from GULC, and even narrower chances if you are targeting specific firms/practices/markets.

tl;dr - 150K at GULC (and that's just tuition) is not worth it for a 50/50 chance of getting a biglaw job that will require, bare minimum, several years of work just so you can break even again.

Capital Idea,

If you were to go back to 0L, still will the geographical and time restrictions. Would you opt for GULC again, select another of the DC area PT programs, or punted and gone to the Rocky Bobo school of typewriter maintenance?

I would've applied to a bunch of the lower T14s for $, then played them against each other to get something out of GULC. Worst case with no $ I'd still have gone to GULC PT because I'm assuming in this scenario I'm the same degree of arrogant that I was going in the first time with my self-assurance I'd do well.

[JustHawkin]

I would've applied to a bunch of the lower T14s for $, then played them against each other to get something out of GULC. Worst case with no $ I'd still have gone to GULC PT because I'm assuming in this scenario I'm the same degree of arrogant that I was going in the first time with my self-assurance I'd do well.

Here to reiterate bolded. Doesn't even have to be T14, schools just outside of it work well.

[pancakes3]

I like how schools portray scholarships as them giving you money when really it's them taking less of your money.

[CanadianWolf]

Interesting career goals OP. If interested in personal injury, then paying sticker for Georgetown is not wise--especially since one with numbers good enough for Georgetown should be able to get full tuition scholarships from most regional law schools.

[PJam1989]

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[Lawdork]

Yes, I feel like everyone credits BigLaw for being the most highly paid field of law. In several respects, it is. However, if you become a superstar personal injury attorney, this is where the most $$$ is. Not only this, but I feel like I would have more interest in personal injury law. No billable hour death sentence, rewarding work, and you actually get to be a trial attorney. At the same time, each major city has about 4 total personal injury attorneys who are considered superstars. So BigLaw would appear to provide a "bigger" chance of making a "bigger" salary. Just saying.

Well to make the big $$$ as a personal injury lawyer, you need to own your own firm in which case, where you go to law school doesn't matter. Those 4 superstars in each city are just superstar businessmen, not superlawyers. They settle most of their cases and rarely go to trial.