Career questions tagged prelaw-track
USC Alumni, how did you afford/pay for USC?
I’ve heard both sides of the argument: avoiding significant debt for an undergraduate degree, but also the idea that attending your dream school can be worth it for the opportunities and connections. Many alumni say the investment paid off for them, which makes this decision harder. I was recently accepted into the USC Dornsife College to study political science on a pre-law track. USC has been my dream school for years. However, with the cost of attendance reaching around $106,000 per year, and coming from an upper-middle-class family, I did not receive enough financial aid to make it realistically affordable. I also did not receive any merit scholarships, which I had hoped for. This leaves me with a difficult question: is USC worth taking on significant financial burden? More specifically, is the political science/pre-law path there worth it if I plan to attend law school afterward?
