So you clearly have rose-colored Bucknell glasses on, and you want to go there- but you can’t really afford it without debt, yes? And you would have to add law school debt on top of that.
So, most of your pro-Bucknell arguments don’t really hold up:
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“super small town”- Carlisle (Dickinson) is 3x the size of Lewisburg (Bucknell). Social life is in the eye of the beholder, but based on the Bucknell & Dickinson students that I know (including the head of the pan-hellenic council at Bucknell), they are not wildly different socially.
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law school- there is nothing magic about Bucknell’s law school numbers- if you can get into law school from Bucknell you can do it from Dickinson or UV-M. Also, Dickinson has a 6 year program which combines your BA + JD , saving you a year: Pre-Law Curriculum | Dickinson College.
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I don’t know why you think that the academics at Bucknell and Dickinson are better than at UV-M, but you are mistaken. There is more than enough academic challenge for you at UV-M.
As a side note: if Carlisle starts to feel small, study abroad is huge at Dickinson. They work hard to make sure that it stays within your existing costs, and that it works with your major requirements. I know a recent grad who managed to get to Argentina, Spain and DC (she is graduating from UPenn Law next month), and another who spent a full year in Australia (where she has now gone back to do grad school).