For Allie Armbruster, 32, the road to law school was as rocky as they come.
The application process alone took guts.
"These are law schools, and the goal is to learn and uphold the law," she told 11Alive's Jennifer Leslie. "I've spent the last 10 years of my life breaking the law. I understand why the reaction would be a hard no."
And yet in her early days, Allie had it made.
Her dad's an accomplished lawyer, and she was captain of the debate team at Pace Academy, a prestigious private school in Buckhead.
"The flipside of growing up in such a charmed childhood is there's a lot of pressure to be successful," Allie explained. "I had somehow internalized that achievement was the only measure of my self-worth."
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