Being the only law school in Nevada means the William S. Boyd School of Law, part of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is the sole in-state pipeline for anyone who wants to study law without leaving the state — and for much of the state's legal community, courts, and government offices that hire that pipeline's graduates. Boyd sits in Paradise, Nevada.
That monopoly status shows up directly in outcomes data. The school reports that Nevada is its single largest employment destination for graduates — more graduates land there than in any other jurisdiction — which is exactly what you'd expect from a school with no in-state competitor and deep local ties. Of the school's 117 graduates in the reporting class, 15 went into government positions (12.8%) and 20 took state or local court clerkships, both channels that typically draw heavily on local relationships, local bar exam credentials, and a school's standing with local judges and agencies — all things a sole in-state law school is positioned to cultivate more thoroughly than an out-of-state option would be for Nevada-based work.
The practical case for Boyd's in-state monopoly is strongest for two groups. Anyone who wants a Nevada legal career — practicing before Nevada courts, working in Nevada government, or building a client base in the Las Vegas or Reno markets — trains at the one school whose faculty, adjuncts, alumni network, and judicial relationships are built around that specific jurisdiction. And anyone who wants to attend law school without leaving family, a job, or a support system in Nevada has exactly one option, full stop.
Boyd's status also shapes what the school chooses to specialize in. Its Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution reflects a sustained institutional investment in dispute resolution and negotiation training. The school also houses a Director for its Indian Nations Gaming and Governance program, a specialty that connects directly to Nevada's gaming-driven economy and the tribal gaming relationships that intersect with it — the kind of niche curricular offering that makes more sense at the one law school anchored in a gaming capital than it might elsewhere.
There are limits to what "only law school in the state" buys an applicant, and the data pack doesn't support overclaiming them. Boyd doesn't publish named concentrations, clinic titles, or a peer-school comparison in the materials available here, so applicants comparing Boyd to programs in neighboring states should look directly at Boyd's own course catalog and clinic offerings rather than assume monopoly status implies a particular breadth of curriculum. What the numbers do support is a straightforward claim: for a Nevada-focused legal career, Boyd is not just a strong option, it is the only in-state law school option, and its graduate placement pattern — concentrated in Nevada itself, with meaningful state and local clerkship and government placement — reflects exactly that structural position.
Boyd's reported first-time bar passage rate is 83.47%, compared to a Nevada state average of 71.83% — a gap of roughly 11.6 percentage points in the most recent reporting cycle. Over a two-year window, Boyd's graduates reach an 89.15% ultimate passage rate. Those are the numbers as the school reports them; treat the underlying cycle as time-sensitive and verify the current year's figures directly with the school or the ABA before relying on them for a decision.
It's worth being precise about what that comparison actually measures. The "state average" against which Boyd is measured includes every test-taker sitting for the Nevada bar in that cycle — graduates of out-of-state schools relocating to Nevada, repeat takers, and others outside Boyd's own graduating class, not just a comparison between Boyd and some other in-state competitor (there isn't one). So part of what the gap reflects is that Boyd's first-time takers, drawn from its own admitted class, are outperforming the broader and more heterogeneous pool of everyone who sits for that exam in Nevada.
What in Boyd's own data plausibly connects to that outperformance
A few structural facts in Boyd's profile line up with strong bar outcomes, though the school's disclosures don't spell out a direct causal chain, so these should be read as contributing context rather than a proven formula:
What this doesn't tell you
The data pack doesn't include a breakdown of Boyd's dedicated bar-preparation program, its academic support office's specific interventions, or year-over-year passage trends beyond this single comparison, so applicants shouldn't assume any single one of the factors above is the cause of the 11-point gap. It's also worth noting that Boyd's own class isn't uniformly bound for the largest firms: only 9 of 117 graduates (7.7%) went to firms of 501+ attorneys, while the government (12.8%) and Nevada state/local clerkship (20 graduates) placements are comparatively large shares of the class — a mix in which strong, broad-based bar passage matters more directly to more graduates' actual career paths than it would at a school where most graduates skip a state bar exam for out-of-state Big Law offers contingent on passage timing rather than admission risk.
For an applicant, the practical takeaway is this: Boyd's bar passage numbers, as the school reports them, substantially exceed the Nevada state average, and that outcome sits alongside a selective admitted-class profile, small class sizes, and heavy experiential coursework — but the school's public data does not itemize a specific bar-success program, so anyone weighing this factor heavily should ask Boyd directly what academic and bar-support infrastructure produces that gap before treating it as guaranteed to repeat for any individual student.
Boyd's admitted class clusters around an LSAT median of 160 and a GPA median of 3.76, with the middle 50% of the entering class spanning an LSAT of 156 to 162 and a GPA of 3.39 to 3.88. Those numbers are planning anchors, not predictions: a 162 LSAT sits at Boyd's 75th percentile, a 160 is smack at the median, and a 156 marks the 25th percentile line, while the same logic applies to GPA at 3.88 / 3.76 / 3.39.
Boyd received 1,056 applications for its most recent entering cohort and extended 325 offers, an acceptance rate of about 30.8%. The class that actually enrolled totaled 156 students — 134 full-time and 22 part-time — which tells you this is a mid-sized program that fills a specific number of seats each year rather than a mega-section school admitting hundreds.
Because William S. Boyd School of Law is the only law school in Nevada, it draws applicants who want to practice in the state, alongside a broader pool of regional and national applicants. Where your LSAT and GPA sit relative to the 25th/50th/75th figures above is the most useful framing device you have: a file above the 75th on both axes is stronger than the school's typical accepted profile on paper, a file at the median mirrors the typical enrolled student, and a file below the 25th line means the rest of the application — personal statement, work experience, letters, any addenda — is doing comparatively more of the work.
US News ranks Boyd 91st nationally in its 2026-27 rankings, which is useful context for calibrating expectations if you're weighing Boyd against other public law schools, but rank alone says nothing about your individual fit relative to the LSAT/GPA bands above.
If you're still building your score, the mechanics of the current LSAT format — two scored Logical Reasoning sections, one scored Reading Comprehension section, and the shift away from Logic Games since August 2024 — are the same everywhere; see the shared guide on how to study for the LSAT for a general prep framework. What's specific to Boyd is simply where the resulting number lands you on the 156-160-162 spread, and how much runway that gives you before you finalize a list of target schools using the application timeline generally used across cycles.
Most Boyd graduates who pass the bar are working in Nevada, and a meaningful minority land at large national firms: 9 members of the most recent graduating class of 117 — about 7.7% — went to firms of 501 or more attorneys, the segment generally associated with "Big Law" compensation. That means Big Law is a real, achievable outcome from Boyd, not a rounding error, but it remains a minority path taken by fewer than one in ten graduates rather than the default trajectory.
The fuller employment picture is dominated by Nevada practice. Boyd's own data marks "NEVADA" as its largest employment category, consistent with its position as the only law school in the state — it functions as the primary pipeline into the state's courts, agencies, and firms, and its graduates carry an outsized share of the local legal market's institutional knowledge as a result. Among the 117-member graduating class, employment splits out roughly as follows: 3 went solo, 18 landed at firms of 1-10 attorneys, 11 at firms of 11-25, 11 at firms of 26-50, 4 at firms of 51-100, 3 at firms of 101-250, 5 at firms of 251-500, and 9 at firms of 501-plus. That distribution is the classic "long tail plus a Big Law spike" pattern common to regional public law schools: the bulk of jobs are small-to-midsize Nevada firms, with a real but narrow channel into the largest national shops.
Government and public-service work is a substantial slice of outcomes at Boyd. Fifteen graduates (12.8%) went into government positions, and 4 (3.4%) went into public interest roles — together accounting for over 16% of the class, a signal that Boyd trains meaningfully for public-sector legal careers alongside private practice. Clerkships add another dimension: 3 graduates secured federal clerkships and 20 secured state or local clerkships, a notably strong state/local clerkship number relative to class size, likely reflecting close ties to the Nevada judiciary given Boyd's singular position in the state. Only 1 graduate reported going into business/industry roles, a small figure worth noting if you're specifically targeting in-house or corporate-adjacent work straight out of law school.
Overall, 92.3% of graduates in full-time, long-term positions ended up in jobs that were either bar-passage-required or JD-advantage — a solid overall placement rate that speaks to the degree's practical utility, though it blends BigLaw, small-firm, government, and clerkship outcomes together rather than isolating any one path.
Bar passage is one of Boyd's clearest strengths on paper: graduates posted an 83.47% first-time bar passage rate against a state average of 71.83%, meaning Boyd graduates cleared the bar on the first attempt at a noticeably higher rate than the broader pool of test-takers in Nevada. The two-year ultimate pass rate climbs to 89.15%, indicating that the large majority of graduates who don't pass on the first attempt do pass on a subsequent one. For context, bar mechanics themselves — the UBE's multiple-choice, essay, and performance-task format, the separate MPRE ethics requirement, and any state-specific components — are consistent across states that use the Uniform Bar Exam, though jurisdictions are gradually transitioning toward the NCBE's NextGen exam later this decade; verify Nevada's specific bar requirements and any transition timeline directly with the state bar before relying on them.
Putting it together: if your goal is to practice in Nevada, Boyd is structurally positioned as the dominant feeder school into that market, with strong bar outcomes reinforcing that path. If your goal is Big Law specifically, the 7.7% figure shows the door is open but narrow, and you should weigh that realistically against schools with larger biglaw placement percentages if that is your primary objective. If you're weighing Boyd's cost against these outcome numbers, the shared framework on how to evaluate whether a law school is financially worth it can help you run the math using Boyd's actual placement mix rather than a generic assumption.
Illustrative: 3-year borrowing at the 2026-27 federal rate (8.07%) over 10 years; your figures depend on your offer and salary.
Boyd's sticker price starts well below what you'd see at most private law schools: full-time tuition is $31,518 a year, plus $1,610 in mandatory fees, for a combined $33,128 in direct charges. Add UNLV's estimated off-campus living costs of $31,263, and the school's own total cost-of-attendance estimate for a full-time student comes to $64,391 for the year.
Most admitted students don't pay that full number. Boyd reports that 76% of its full-time class receives some form of grant aid, and the median (50th percentile) grant award for full-time students is $22,998 — enough to cover roughly two-thirds of the combined tuition-and-fees bill on its own, before factoring in living costs. That's the figure worth anchoring your own planning to: if you're offered aid near or above $23,000, you're sitting at or above where Boyd's typical grant recipient lands.
The distribution of awards is uneven, which is normal for a school that uses grants to shape its class rather than hand out uniform discounts. Boyd's own bands show 41% of students receiving less than half-tuition grants, 25% receiving between half and full tuition, and 6% receiving a full-tuition award. Add those together and roughly 72% of the class is getting some grant in one of those three bands — close to, but not exactly matching, the 76% headline grant-recipient figure, which suggests a small additional slice receives modest awards outside the standard bands. Read the other side of that math plainly: something like a quarter of the incoming class is not captured in the grant bands at all, which functionally means they are paying tuition at or near full price, or covering the gap through loans, savings, or outside scholarships.
Boyd does not publicly report conditional scholarship retention data for the last three entering classes in a usable form, so if you're offered a renewable, GPA-conditioned scholarship, ask the financial aid office directly what percentage of similarly conditioned students in recent classes kept their award through graduation — that's a fair, specific question to bring to any negotiation, and one the published data here can't answer for you.
Because Boyd is a public law school with tuition well under $35,000, the arithmetic of borrowing looks different than at a $60,000-plus private school even before scholarships enter the picture. A student paying full freight here is still borrowing against a smaller base than peers at higher-sticker-price schools, and a student who lands a half- or full-tuition grant on top of that base is looking at a genuinely low-debt path to a JD — provided living costs are managed carefully, since UNLV's own $31,263 living estimate is actually the larger half of the total cost-of-attendance figure.
Boyd houses two named programs that reflect its Las Vegas setting more than any generic law school curriculum would. The first is the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution, one of the school's formally listed centers, aimed at dispute resolution work rather than traditional litigation training. The second is the Indian Nations Gaming & Governance program, directed by faculty member Danielle Finn — a program that sits squarely at the intersection of gaming regulation and tribal governance, a combination few other law schools in the country can credibly offer given where they're located.
The data pack doesn't give a course list, concentration names, or journal titles for either program, so it's not possible to say here how many credit hours a student could build around them, or whether they lead to a formal certificate. What is verifiable is simpler and arguably more useful: Boyd is the only law school in the state of Nevada, which means any student wanting to study gaming law, tribal gaming governance, or conflict resolution in the specific regulatory environment that produced modern casino law has essentially one in-state option, and it's this one.
If gaming regulation or tribal governance work is the reason you're looking at Boyd specifically, treat the Indian Nations Gaming & Governance program as a starting point for direct questions to the admissions office — ask what courses, clinics, or field placements currently connect to it, since that level of curricular detail isn't part of what's publicly compiled here.
Boyd runs a sizable hands-on training pipeline relative to its class size, and the filled-seat numbers suggest most students who want practical experience get it. The school reports 48 clinic seats available with 51 actually filled — meaning clinic enrollment ran slightly above the nominal seat count, which points to either added capacity or multiple short-term placements being counted, but either way it signals clinics aren't sitting empty. On top of that, 154 field placements were filled, giving students supervised work in outside legal settings — courts, agencies, or public interest offices — well beyond what the clinic seats alone would cover.
Simulation courses, the classroom-based equivalent of practical training (trial advocacy, negotiation, drafting exercises, and similar skills courses graded on performance rather than exams), filled 432 seats in the reporting year. Set against a total JD enrollment of 457 students across all three years, that simulation-course volume implies most students are taking at least one skills-based course during their time at Boyd, not just the students who opt into a clinic.
Boyd also lists 8 co-curricular offerings — the moot court, mock trial, and competition-style activities that sit outside the formal credit-bearing clinic and simulation structure. The data pack doesn't include the specific names of Boyd's clinics or which practice areas they cover, so if a particular clinic (immigration, family law, a gaming-specific clinic, etc.) is why you're interested in Boyd, that's a direct question worth putting to the admissions or clinical faculty office rather than something this guide can confirm from what's publicly reported.
Taken together, the numbers describe a school where practical training is not a boutique offering for a handful of students — clinic seats filled beyond capacity, field placements more than triple the clinic count, and simulation courses reaching most of the student body. For a school whose graduates go overwhelmingly into Nevada practice, that volume of applied training before graduation is a meaningful part of the value proposition, even without a public breakdown of clinic subject areas.
A 160 LSAT sits exactly at Boyd's median, a 162 puts you at its 75th percentile, and a 156 marks its 25th percentile — those three numbers are the honest anchors for sizing up your own file, not a probability meter. Boyd received 1,056 applications for its most recent class and extended 325 offers, an acceptance rate of roughly 31%, while ultimately enrolling 156 students. That gap between offers (325) and the enrolled class (156) tells you Boyd admits meaningfully more people than it seats, which is normal for a school competing for regional and out-of-state talent, but it does not tell you your individual odds — no honest advising can, and you should be skeptical of anyone who quotes you a percentage chance.
What the median split does let you do is calibrate where your number lands. If you're testing at or above 162, you're at or above Boyd's 75th percentile LSAT band; a 160 keeps you squarely in the school's typical range; a 156 is Boyd's 25th percentile, meaning a meaningful share of admitted students score below it, but it also means the rest of your file — GPA, narrative, letters — carries more weight to round out the picture. Boyd's GPA bands (3.39 at the 25th, 3.76 at the median, 3.88 at the 75th) move somewhat independently of LSAT, so a strong GPA can offset a below-median LSAT and vice versa; admissions committees generally read the two together rather than in isolation.
The LSAT itself, since the August 2024 reformat, consists of two scored Logical Reasoning sections, one scored Reading Comprehension section, and one unscored variable section — Logic Games are gone. A separate, unscored Argumentative Writing sample is submitted online. Because schools consider your highest score, a retake after focused, official-practice-based preparation is a rational move if your diagnostic sits meaningfully below Boyd's median, especially since even a few points can shift you from the 25th to the 75th percentile band at a school with this LSAT spread. For the mechanics of building a study plan and choosing a retake timeline, see /how-to-study-for-the-lsat.
One more number worth sitting with: Boyd's is the only law school in Nevada. That in-state monopoly means its applicant pool likely includes a disproportionate share of Nevada residents with strong ties to practicing in-state, which can matter for how a committee reads your narrative — but it is not a data point the pack quantifies, so treat it as context, not a lever you can pull with certainty.
Apply as early in Boyd's cycle as your file allows, because most law schools — and there's no data in Boyd's pack suggesting otherwise — admit on a rolling basis, which means the pool gets more competitive relative to remaining seats as the year goes on. The specific application deadline and fee for Boyd aren't part of the dataset behind this guide, so confirm both directly on UNLV Boyd's admissions page before you build your timeline; treat any date you see elsewhere as provisional until you verify it there.
A workable sequence for most applicants: take the LSAT early enough to leave room for one retake if needed, request transcripts and letters of recommendation two to three months before you intend to submit, and draft your personal statement well before your target submission window so it can go through several rounds of revision. Because Boyd received over a thousand applications for roughly 156 enrolled seats, a complete, error-free file submitted early in the cycle is a straightforward way to make sure your numbers — LSAT and GPA — get read while the admissions committee still has the most seats and scholarship budget uncommitted.
Your personal statement and letters matter most when your numeric profile sits below Boyd's medians (a 160 LSAT, 3.76 GPA) rather than above them; a below-median file benefits from a narrative that gives the committee a concrete reason to look past the numbers — ties to Nevada, relevant work experience, a demonstrated trajectory of improvement, or specific interest in something Boyd is known for, such as its Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution or its status as the state's only law school. Above-median applicants still benefit from a clean, specific statement, but the numbers are doing more of the work for them.
Letters of recommendation should come from people who can speak concretely to your written analysis and judgment under pressure — a professor who supervised a research paper or a supervisor who watched you handle ambiguous problems — rather than from someone who can only vouch for your character in general terms. If you're weighing whether to apply this cycle or wait a cycle to retake the LSAT or strengthen your file, remember that Boyd's committee considers your highest LSAT score, so a documented upward trajectory (a retake that moves you from, say, the 25th to nearer the median or 75th percentile band) is generally worth the delay if your timeline allows it.
Finally, build your target school list, application materials, and financial planning together rather than sequentially — since scholarship offers at schools like Boyd are often tied to where your numbers land relative to the class medians, submitting early with your strongest possible LSAT and a complete file gives you the best chance of being considered while merit aid is still being allocated. For a fuller month-by-month framework, see /law-school-application-timeline; for how to handle a scholarship offer once it arrives, see /law-school-scholarship-negotiation.
Start with the sticker numbers you can actually plan around: Boyd's full-time tuition and fees run about $33,128 a year, and the school's own estimate of total cost of attendance — tuition, fees, and living costs — comes out to roughly $64,391 for a single year, implying something in the neighborhood of $190,000+ for three years before any aid is applied. Seventy-six percent of Boyd's students receive some grant aid, with a median grant among recipients of about $22,998, and the aid distribution splits into rough bands: 41% of the class receives less than half-tuition, 25% receives between half and full tuition, and 6% receives a full-tuition award. That spread tells you scholarship money is common at Boyd but concentrated more in the partial range than the full-ride range — most aided students are getting meaningful, not complete, discounts off the roughly $33,000 tuition line.
The phrase "conditional-aid reality" points to a mechanic worth understanding in general terms even though Boyd's own retention data for conditional scholarships isn't broken out in the disclosures behind this guide. Many law schools award merit scholarships that carry a GPA-maintenance condition — keep a stated law-school GPA (often around the school's median or a fixed number) after 1L year, or the scholarship shrinks or disappears. Because law school grading is typically curved, a condition tied to class rank or a GPA floor means a defined percentage of any scholarship cohort will predictably fall below the line each year, through no fault of effort alone. Before accepting an offer, ask the school directly and in writing what percentage of conditional scholarship holders in recent years kept their full award — if Boyd doesn't publish that number where you can find it, that absence is itself useful information, and it's worth pressing admissions for it rather than assuming the best case.
On the federal financing side, the rules changed materially for anyone borrowing new federal loans as of July 1, 2026: Grad PLUS loans are gone for new borrowers, and law students are capped at $50,000 a year and $200,000 aggregate in Direct Unsubsidized loans, within a $257,500 lifetime federal cap, at a rate near 8.07% plus roughly a 1.057% origination fee. Against Boyd's roughly $64,391 annual cost of attendance, that federal cap can leave a real gap once tuition, fees, and living costs are added up — a gap most students close with scholarships, savings, or private loans, since Grad PLUS no longer exists to cover the difference automatically. Only two federal repayment options exist for new borrowers: a Tiered Standard Plan (the default, which earns zero credit toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness) and the income-driven Repayment Assistance Plan, which you must actively choose if you're aiming for PSLF after ten years in qualifying government or nonprofit work. Given that Boyd places a meaningful share of graduates into Nevada government and public-interest roles, PSLF eligibility is worth mapping out early if that's your intended path — but it only helps if you affirmatively enroll in RAP rather than defaulting to Standard repayment.
Practically, that means running two numbers side by side before you enroll: your net cost after any scholarship (list price minus your specific grant, not the median), and your realistic post-graduation payment under RAP versus Standard given the salary range typical of your intended practice area. For the mechanics of loan caps, RAP, and PSLF timing, see /law-school-loans-and-pslf; for how to negotiate a scholarship offer against another school's, see /law-school-scholarship-negotiation; and for a broader framework on weighing sticker cost against outcomes, see /is-law-school-worth-it.
For someone committed to practicing in Nevada, the calculus at Boyd looks different than it would for a school competing nationally for Big Law placement — and that difference is the whole point. Boyd is the only law school in Nevada, which means it functions less like one option among many and more like the state's pipeline into its own bench and bar. If your plan is to build a career in Las Vegas, Reno, or elsewhere in the state, that local monopoly on legal education, combined with what the data pack shows about in-state outcomes, is the central fact to weigh — more than any national ranking.
Start with cost, because that's where "worth it" is usually decided. Boyd's published full-time tuition is $31,518 a year plus $1,610 in fees, and the school's own estimated cost of attendance (tuition, fees, and living costs) comes to $64,391 for the year. That's a meaningfully different starting point than the six-figure sticker prices at many private law schools, and it matters because of how federal financing has changed: as of July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans are gone for new borrowers, and federal Direct Unsubsidized loans are capped at $50,000 a year and $200,000 total for law students (verify current figures before you borrow). At a school with Boyd's cost profile, that federal cap is far less likely to force students into private loans to cover a gap — a real, practical advantage over schools where the sticker price alone can exceed the annual federal borrowing limit.
Scholarship support reinforces that picture. Seventy-six percent of the incoming class receives a grant, and the median grant for full-time students is $22,998 — worth roughly two-thirds of tuition. Combined with the relatively modest cost of attendance, that suggests a meaningful share of Boyd students can graduate with debt loads that are serviceable on Nevada legal salaries, which matters because loan repayment plans built around Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) or the new income-driven Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) only make sense if you're heading into government or nonprofit work; most graduates going into private practice repay directly against their salary. If you're weighing scholarship offers, it's worth reading them against your realistic post-grad income in the Nevada market rather than assuming a national Big Law salary will absorb the debt — see the scholarship-negotiation and loans/PSLF pages for how to run those numbers for your own offer.
On outcomes, the pack gives a genuinely strong local signal. Boyd's first-time bar passage rate is 83.47%, well above the state average of 71.83% for the same administration, and its two-year ultimate bar passage rate is 89.15%. For a school whose graduates are overwhelmingly aiming at the Nevada bar, beating the state average by more than eleven points is a concrete, checkable indicator that the school is doing its job of preparing students for the specific exam they'll actually take. Employment outcomes point the same direction: 92.3% of graduates were employed in full-time, long-term bar-required or JD-advantage jobs, and the pack identifies Nevada as the largest single employment destination for graduates — exactly what you'd expect from the state's only law school, and exactly what you want to see if your goal is a Nevada legal career rather than a national one.
Where the numbers are more modest is Big Law: about 7.7% of graduates (9 people) landed at firms of 501+ attorneys, the segment tied to the roughly $215,000 salary peak that shapes national law-school rankings and marketing. If that specific path is your goal, Boyd's placement into it is real but limited, and you should weigh that against schools with denser Big Law pipelines. But most Boyd graduates are not competing for those jobs — they're going into Nevada firms of varying sizes, state and local clerkships (20, versus 3 federal), and government work (12.8%), which is a different and, for an in-state career, arguably more relevant kind of success. The honest framing is this: Boyd looks like strong value for someone who wants to practice in Nevada and is realistic about not aiming primarily at national Big Law, and looks less compelling if Big Law placement or a national brand is the primary goal. For the general mechanics of weighing sticker price, scholarships, and expected income against each other, see the is-law-school-worth-it and law-school-loans-and-pslf pages.