Going to a lower tier school and then transferring?

OP I am greatly concerned about your wanting to go for the “education” and are not worried about working. I’m a lawyer who has law students as externs. Trust me that you do not want to (1) go in thinking you’ll get awesome grades/scores when that has not yet been the case (despite maybe having other great soft factors) and (2) incur lots of debt.

You can go for the education if you are full pay.

Your whole future can be ruined by too much debt. It will influence when/if you can buy a house, have kids/reduce workload to be with kids, and even whether someone is willing to marry you. The for profit schools feed off of students who are often first gen, URM, and who did not have the ability to get into other schools.