Full Court Press

The pressure is officially on. I'm in the home stretch of the whole law school thing and now is the time for me to really make a decision. I paid my deposit for American last week and Loyola's is due on 5/3. But i'm still not sure where i want to go. There are so many factors that i must take into consideration... ranking, bar passage rate, money, employment rate, etc etc

The advantages of Loyola are fairly obvious... i wouldn't incur anywhere near as much debt and I would probably be able to take a job that i really like after graduation because my debt load won't be crushing. On the other hand, it's a smaller school... not sure of the reputation in the area... not as many varied course offerings.... But i am receiving a scholarship named after a retired Judge who would most likely be able to put me in touch with lots of important people and the presence of his name on my resume may prove to be invaluable... but I've always wanted to go to American... there's something about the idea of practicing law here in DC. Having lived in DC all my life would put me in a good situation because it would be easy to convince a law firm that i would plan on being there for awhile. But Chicago is such a friendly city.

*sigh*

So yeah, I'm not even close to making a decision.