I have been offered some very generous scholarships thanks to 7sage helping me improve my score by 12 points.
I was offered about 90% to a tier three school. Comes out to me paying about 7000 a year. I was then offered about 75% from a top 50 school, which comes out to me paying about 14,000 a year.
The tier three is in my state, which I will be practicing law. The top 50 school is in a neighboring state.
I need some advice.
I do not think I am interesting in Big Law, but possibly medium law.
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Also, what do you mean by "medium law" ? I'm assuming you mean working at a mid-sized law firm? If so, you should probably reach out to some midsize firms where you want to practice and see if they recruit from the schools you are looking to attend. They are usually pretty forthright about things of this nature, so getting an answer shouldn't be a problem.
Good luck!
The problem is many schools outside the T14 with reputable names don't have much reach outside of their markets. So it isn't prudent to go to University of Iowa School of Law (Ranked 30th), for example, over a regional T3 in the area in which OP wishes to practice, granting OP doesn't want to work in Des Moines. T50 and T3 are mostly meaningless distinctions in many cases. So it is really going to depend on what T50 vs what T3. There's a big difference between a Fordham Law (T50) alum trying to get a firm job in Newark and a University of Colorado trying to get a job in L.A. So there are certainly cases where an argument can be made to attend the T3 school over a T50.
The good news is, you have great scholarships at both! Congrats