She was living in California and she may have wanted to remain in California and to practice law there. If so, then it wouldn't make sense for her to attend the University of Minnesota Law School.
Minnesota's usually considered to have a much better law school than Pepperdine, BTW.
It’s also possible she applied to MN law, and was rejected.
True, but the issue is that because of access to loans she chose the high price school rather than a lower price school.