If you want to practice in Utah you're better off at the U or BYU than you are at a "similar" institution further away, even if it's not too far. Price is a factor too (in-state v. out of state for public schools), but that is one thing I wish I'd known. I'd have gone to a law school in CA instead of Virginia because I had no interest in living in Virginia. I went to W&M because of its ranking and the feeling I got when I visited, but it made job hunting tricky. I loved W&M and my time there, but while everything worked out eventually, things would have been much easier if I'd found a law school in CA or AZ or somewhere nearby. If I had known how lawyer hiring worked I probably wouldn't have even applied to W&M.