Hello! If you had to choose from the following two options, which would you select:

- Georgetown's part-time program (ranked #1 in US, 3yrs): Graduate with 200K in debt
- Application already submitted, results by end of Feb

- George Mason's part-time program (ranked #4 in US, 4yrs): Graduate with 20K in debt (with the possibility of it being $0 debt)
- Application not yet submitted, but thinking about applying ED to a program that offers full tuition scholarship. Deadline: Mid-Jan

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As archaic as it may seem, many big law firms still only recruit from certain schools - the T14 (and the top 10% from those schools). If you want to go into big law then school plays a large factor. If not, you can skip the debt. Big law will pay for itself, but it will be all consuming for the first few years.

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Georgetown is my dream school, but I am not sure about taking on that much debt (if I were to be accepted).

Basically, should I apply to George Mason's binding program knowing that I may receive a decision before hearing back from Georgetown?

GEORGETOWN NO DOUBT. Big firms care A LOT about school ranking

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