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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably an unpopular opinion but.....personally, I think if you can get into a top law school, maybe you should go to a law school ranked a little further down **if** you can get a free ride.

You should be able to be at the top of the class at a less competitive school, and if you don't have any loans upon graduation, you have way more options IMO.  Especially if you don't have any outside financial assistance from family, etc.[/quote]

Having been down this road myself, and having observed many others along the way, I agree 100 percent that you're far better off going to a lower ranked but still respected law school that offers you lots of money than you are going to a T5 or T14 and borrowing all or most of the tuition.  You really are putting golden handcuffs on yourself.  Previous posters have suggested that you can just work for Biglaw for four or five years and pay off the debt, and yes that's true, but that is hardly a cakewalk and for many can be absolutely soul-sucking.  Why put yourself through that just attend a top law school, especially when the biggest advantage to going to a top law school is that it opens more doors to Biglaw than other law schools when that's not the job that you even want?  It's a very circuitous argument.

In short, you need to go to the best law school that you can get into [i]and[/i] that will not overburden you with loans.  Not just the best law school.

One caveat:  it isn't a given that a student with an academic profile that would get them into a T5 or a T14 is going to land at the top of the class in a T25 or T30 law school.  There are a lot of smart people in those schools who just missed the cut for the T14 who could very easily kick your backside in the classroom, and there are others who didn't come close to missing the cut but who still can surprise you.  Still, you're unlikely to do poorly at one of these schools and you're still better offer graduating without massive loans. [/quote]

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