Jedi Archive

If you are a lvl 57 jedi right now is it better to drop everything but one box in jedi and quickly grind out a lvl 80 non jedi template in order to respec in the NGE to a lvl 80 jedi? It doesn't make sense that a lvl 80 non jedi can respec to a lvl 80 jedi and pass all the current padawans when the NGE hits.