Dude...I turned down a top 10 law school and 2 med schools to finish my comm and fly. I can't say I don't have regrets about that on some days when I miss home and the prestige of the school I would've been out, and the general "acceptance" of that career by friends, family, and most importantly WOMEN, but the majority of the time if I think about all the extra debt and all the studying I'd have to do in law school, I think this is the right choice. I have a science undergrad degree and had a 4.0 GPA...don't let anyone tell you that your college education has no bearing on your aviation career, because it does. 121 training is just as intense as law school, if not harder (in law school you don't have to worry about 50-100 people's lives while you're in IOE). So the study habits and discipline that got you into law school, that you acquired through undergrad at a decent university, will prove to be very useful in this career.

Just keep your head up and don't have any regrets if/when things go South. Unless you're a real badazz lawyer with a great law school GPA, you woulda been making the same money as a captain, which you could easily be by the time you would've finished law school. Factor in being at a major (maybe) in 6-8 years or so, and the pay range from now until major job is relatively similar to law school, minus about 50K MORE debt as a law student.

As a JD you'd work 70 hrs+/week and probably hate your life. As an MD, you'd start out life with 200K in debt, make 30K as a resident for 4 years, THEN make 6 figs.

Bottom line is plenty of people will give you crap about not going to law school (or med and law school in my case) to be a pilot. But most of them don't fully understand that med and law people go through just as much BS (if not more), and work twice as much...and lawyers, just like pilots, might never get that six figure job unless they went to a great school and got good grades. It's even more competitive. People forget that. Keep that in mind and you'll stay in aviation, trust me.