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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Does DC want to go to grad school?[/b][/quote]

Nothing makes me cringe harder than asking this about 17-year-olds, or taking their response to it seriously. Nearly 80% of rising college freshman at orientation claim they're going to be future surgeons or white shoe lawyers. How many end up there? Maybe 1 in 10, if that.

Bank the prestige now, op. Plans change. Kids change. Majors change. Prestige is forever. But warning, if gunning for Wall Street or top shelf consulting shops, a high gpa is going to be very tough at Chicago.[/quote]

Cringe away, but I took a full-ride to a not-at-all prestigious school for undergrad because I knew I wanted to go on to law school.  When law school came around I got full-ride offers from Tier II and below schools, and I went to a top-5 law school with not much financial assistance. 
 I only got around $15k/year in merit aid and graduated with scads of debt.  The debt was challenging but going to that school would have been [i]completely off the table [/i]if I had already had $50-80k in SL's from undergrad, and my job prospects would not have been anywhere near as broad.[/quote]

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