@Consolation:
“I don’t either. But there are other lives in the law.”
. . . most of whom pay far less well than Big Law and can’t really justify 3 years of full-pay law school from a purely cost-benefit perspective.
“Sure. But there is a lot of room between “a lot of money” and “fully funded or worthless,” as there is daylight between “YHS law school or don’t bother” and “most JDs.” Are you seriously suggesting that it is literally not worth going to, for example, Chicago, U VA, Georgetown, Northwestern, and Cal? Really???”
If you believe (as I do) that the Big Law life kind of sucks, and Big Law is the best you can do if you go to those schools, then what conclusion would you draw? Certainly not that paying 6-figures for those schools is worth it. You could argue that paying 5-figures for those schools is worth it, though that’s not too far from fully-funded.
“If the money were there, and I were OrchidBloom, I would spend it on Yale rather than wait for some completely hypothetical grad school, unless I got a full ride to another really outstanding school.”
Which was the point I was making (roughly speaking). Health field career (and maybe a few other paths) excepted.