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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former BigLaw partner and law school recruiter here.  There is no question that UVA and William & Mary both are highly regarded by top law schools.  Both send many graduates to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc., year in and year out.  I know this personally because I have interviewed at each of these law schools many times over the years.  While I personally would not encourage anyone to go to law school - at least not in pursuit of BigLaw, which is a nightmare - if anyone were insisting on going I’d strongly advise going to one of these two schools over the rest on OP’s list and save your money for law school tuition.  The last thing you want to do is graduate from law school with a mountain of debt and be forced into a position that you hate simply because you need the money.  If I saw that once in BigLaw, I saw it 1000 times.

I know it annoys posters to no end, but UVA does have an elite reputation in many circles, and top ranked law schools is unquestionably one of them.  [/quote]

I think the equation looks like this in Virginia because UVa and William & Mary are such fine, historic schools, and because most of the parents here have household income over $150,000.

If a great student’s state flagship would be a football team with a university attached, paying more to go to a serious school might be worth it.

If a student comes from a middle-income family, chances are that, with aid, going to Wash. U. or Tufts would be cheaper than going to UVa out of state.

For a student from a low-income family, Wash. U. would be a lot cheaper. The school may be need aware, but the students who do get in get a lot of aid.

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It is the same situation for upper-middle class people in the Bay Area or SoCal; the UC Berkeley/UCLA/UCSD combinations are just quite competative with the leading private universities that is doesn't make sense to go to OOS privates (unless for absolution HYMPS level) as a full-pay household.  There are a few in-state choice (Univ Mich etc...) in a few states where the publics are too close to the elite privates to not be considered by full-pay parents.

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