Law Schools and 25k

I am working on law school applications these days and have narrowed the search down to 8 schools:
Northeastern U, in Boston
Wakeforest, in NC
U. Wisconsin
American U. Washington School of Law in DC
Vanderbilt in Nashville
Cordozo Law (Yeshiva U.) in NYC
USC in Los Angeles
UC Davis, in Davis CA (like that wasn't obvious)
I am also going to look at Temple University, located in Philadelphia, PA.
It was hard to narrow it down, but I think I am happy with it. It takes a surprisingly lot work to narrow schools down when you don't care what state they are in, or how good they are. Not that I don't care, I just don't care for the attitude people have about ranks that will mean very little to me when I am trying cases. I hope that my skills as a lawyer are seen as the criterion for judging me as a lawyer, rather than the institution's name on the diploma. I recognize the correlation between ranking and teaching skills, but I can learn anywhere, and I will learn best in a hands on location. That is why my strongest criterion were: clinical programs, student publications and organizations, and student: faculty ratio. I had to eliminate a lot of "high ranking" schools because they fell short in these categories. I looked at over 50 schools. It was a long process. I say all this because I don't want to have to further defend my choices, but would be happy to send anyone who requests a list of all the schools i reviewed and their rankings and notes in each category; I took the search very seriously.
Now, on to a  very different note. As all of you probably know, the reason I want to be a lawyer is becasue of my experience in the California Institution for Women, volunteering in an organic garden. The organization that started the garden, Claremont Colleges Criminal Justice Network, is in the running for a grant from Pepsi Corp. for 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS (pinki in mouth, evil laugh)! And we need your support! we have moved from 400th place to 41st! but we need to be in the top 10 to win. So, you can vote every day from your email (each email if you have multiple), and you can:
Text* 103652 to
Pepsi (73774)
*Standard text messaging rates apply.   
You can vote every day until Nov. 30th. So, please, please please, please vote early, vote often and vote many times.
Part of the reason Pepsi uses this method to choose the recipients is because getting people to vote every day and multiple times a day shows that the organization can do large scale work and movement building. We need your help!

Here is the website:
http://www.refresheverything.com/cultivatingdreams
While you CAN technically vote for 10 different projects everyday, keep in mind that if you vote for a program in the same category as Cultivating Dreams which is ahead, you will kind of be canceling-out your vote. Wink!
Thanks!