Ummm, what I mean was "it is just as bad as if I had defended child molestation".  Honestly, though, don't you think a PS defending child molestation would get noticed?

The question remains, did your personal statement deal with defending child molestation? First you said it did, then you said this. Which is it? I'm beginning to think you're a pathological liar, as it seems like you're always changing up your story on a number of things. 

Are you in-state? Temple is a pretty damn good deal for in-state residents.  Although, now that I think about it isn't Pitt in the same psuedo-public category as Temple? I guess they may have very similar tuition rates. 

If you truly don't have an opinion one way or the other on which city you want to live in, I'd say that you should go to Temple.  If only because I've got a Philadelphia bias.

I don't have anything special to add, but I am having similar thoughts.  If I work in a large firm, it will be mainly for the reasons you listed. What is LRAP?

LRAP stands for "Loan Repayment Assistance Plan."  It's basically a loan forgiveness/assistance plan that a lot of school's offer to help public interest folks manage their debt.  Each school has different plans (if they even have one) and most of the ones I've looked into are pretty complex and complicated. 

Yep, every time I talk to my mom I hear the word Harvard come up.  Every acceptance I've received, even my safeties, has provided more evidence to her that I'm sure to get into Harvard. 

So, I'm sitting here trying to strategize about possible career paths and was curious what others, in similar situations, might be thinking. 

Right now my plan is most likely to try and take a Big Law job straight out of law school, and slave away for a few years to pay off what I expect to be monstrous debt and perhaps establish some sort of financial nest-egg.  After that, I'd like to transition into a public intersest work of some sort (or political/governmental perhaps.)

Ultimately, public interest work of some sort is where my passion is and what I want to do with my career, but I'm a bit hesitant about taking a detour through Big Law to get there.  Anyone else thinking about trying this sort of path? I guess the other options for PI work are: (1) Go to the school which will offer the least amount of debt or (2) Try and make the most of the school's LRAP.  Any thoughts?