A ten point increase clearly makes you tremendously competitive at an entirely different tier of schools. The graph below demonstrates that the law school you attend has a very strong correlation to your starting salary after school. As this graph illustrates, a ten point increase is worth well more than $10,000 in your first year after school alone.

At TestWell, we have many students (probably more than our competitors given our Sliding Scale Tuition Plan) who end up pursuing a career in the public interest. Even if you end up taking this path, however, you need to take into account that the average starting salary of your colleagues will have a direct bearing on how others value your degree.