A bit confused by the title - because I don’t see top 20 for the most part - if you say Ivies.
Are you full pay or do you have need?
If yo uare full pay, then Northeastern, UVA, Barnard, USC, Gtown, Ivies, UCs are $80K+. American may be. Some are far more.
If you’re from UCONN, it makes sense.
So you’re a great candidate for a lot of schools and I see you getting in.
But I struggle with wanting to save money for law school (great idea) and then picking a list like this.
You want to go to law school? Pick your in state public or pick a school where cost is low or automerit gets you a $20-25K all in cost thanks to merit. Or if you’re a NMSF, you can go for free. Or if you become NMF, you can also go free, etc.
Or how about a W&L and the Johnson Scholarship, etc.
Why? Look at the top law schools - Harvard has more than 100 schools represented in its first year class as does UVA. These aren’t large classes. Penn, too, and more than 200 schools represented in the overall law school. So Georgetown ($90K-ish) or George Mason, Barnard or Binghamton, etc., you, your LSAT and today more and more - work experience - will be what gets you into a top law school- which run $100K-ish and you can only borrow $200K-ish - not that you would want to - it’d be a financial killer.
So think about what you want to spend / what your budget is - and you may want to reassess - and if you’ve applied to all these, apply to schools to make budget.
Great list of schools and you can get in anywhere - but if you get in and want to save money for law school, unless you have demonstrated financial need, you’re going to put yourself in a pickle in regards to law school expense. And you might want to add some sure fire, low cost publics (your flagship, presumably UCONN) or if you are NMF, take advantage of the largesse of schools like Tulsa (free tuition, room), Alabama (5 years tuition - so you can even pick up a year+ of law school), four years room, and $4K a year - or others that will give free tuition, etc.
They won’t be the “name” you want - but they will save you $350-400K.
So to me, it comes down to - what you mean by this - technically could afford pricier schools but would prefer not to (saving money for law school)
If you truly meant this, and I assume you don’t have financial need, don’t take this the wrong way, but other than UCONN (assuming it’s your home state school), you didn’t do a good job assembling your list. You built a list to make you feel good (rank) without taking what you said about saving for law school into account.
It seems like you want to be near DC - UMD (you’ll get in) will be $60K with a small chance of merit. A GMU or even JMU if you can go a bit further, would be much less, as examples.
Good luck.
PS - examples of the 147 schools represented in the first year class at Harvard Law: ASU, Grand Valley State, Kansas, Ole Miss, Oklahoma State, Southern Maine, Tennessee and the list goes on and on - same at other top 8 law schools.