<p>COA for Harvard Law is $78,700 this year.</p>
<p>COA for NYU is $81,000 this year.</p>
<p>COA for Columbia is $82,795.</p>
<p>Berkeley Law (aka Boalt) is $73,990 at instate prices.</p>
<p>Take all of them and increase by 3-5% for next year, and the year after and the year after.</p>
<p>Add in compound interest, since it starts to accrue the day the loans are first distributed by the government.</p>
<p>Attending HLS at full loan, and the GULC calculator, one would end up with $292k in debt.</p>
<p>[Georgetown</a> Law Financial Planning Calculator for Prospective Students 1213.xlsx](<a href=“Financial Aid | Georgetown Law”>Financial Aid | Georgetown Law)</p>
<p>The math is real simple. :)</p>
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<p>Again, the math does not support your argument. Over 50% of Associates leave (or are pushed out) of Big Law within 4 years. The odds of making equity partner are slim; perhaps incurring nearly $300k in debt for that slim chance is a good bet for you, but not me.</p>
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<p>Unlike law grads, med grads have (near) zero unemployment, at least today. Good paying jobs are available in any speciality. (Assuming the ACA stays in its current form, I have predicted that we will morph into a Canadian-style system in a generation. So, perhaps medicine will still be a “good” profession for the next 20 years. But that is just my crystal ball.)</p>