Law school...

One of my fellow interns is currently taking the Kaplan LSAT prep class, and it sounds like death. Probably that will be me next summer when I get home from Madrid. $1300 is a lot of money to fork over, but if I'm really going to do law school, I suppose I might as well do the thing properly.

Not that I have any idea of how well I'll do on the LSAT (or how my thoughts on law school will change over the course of my year in Spain), but let me be pretentious and post a list of law schools I'd like to go to:
BC
BU
UChicago
Columbia
Fordham
Georgetown
GW
Harvard
UIllinois
Loyola (Chicago)
Northwestern
NYU

Basically, if I get in, I should go to the University of Illinois. And save some money, for once. But, as you know, I cherish the romantic notion of going to graduate school in NYC. Boston has always been a place where I've thought about going to school/living. I like DC, although I feel like I need to "get out of Dodge." It really is a small town. And if I got into Chicago or Northwestern, I would have to seriously consider returning to my Chi-town roots. If I don't get into Loyola Chicago, I'm not going to law school (I'm legacy from both of my parents...).

And I have almost two years to worry about this, but I imagine that my year abroad will result in personal growth more than professional/academic, and I don't want to put this off until it is too late. For some reason I feel a fierce urgency to go straight to law school (perhaps because of the fact I'm essentially a sort of unpaid, untrained paralegal this summer?), so I feel like I should really start researching my options and maybe buy an LSAT book. Unfortunately my GPA will not be quite high enough for the Georgetown Law early assurance program since my grades in Spain will not be factored in (probably a blessing on the whole). I used to have such a good GPA! And be so hard-working!