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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bront" data-source="post: 2545767" data-attributes="member: 19696">On the financial side, make sure you inform the school you will be attending that you are currently unemployed or underemployed (assuming you are) compared to your previous incometax information.  I lost some of my scholarship my second year in school because I had had a reasonably well paying contract job for 8 months the previous year before I entered, and if I had spoken up, I could have saved myself at least $5,000 in student loans.  Of course, I found this out only after I saw a freind of mine do exactly that.Do some research on schollarships yourself.  Some universities are very good about trying to get you as much help as you can (Mine was, though they failed to mention the above option to me, I never had to pay anything up front), but not every one is, and there are many options out there than they may not be aware of beyond that anyway.  I don't know specificly about law school, but I know they're out there for most schooling.  The only real problem I forsee is that by the time you're ready to start paying off your student loans, the interest rates will likely be higher than they are now, which will be unfortunate.  I got lucky (I think I'm under 2% on mine), but student loans still are not that bad compaired to most other loans, the interest is tax deductable (much like a morgage).  Once you're ready, I'd consolidate them asap (unless you think interest rates are going down), and then probably go for a 10 year payoff plan.  You're unlikely to find anything with much less interest, and it's unsecured debt, so you're not in danger of much more than penalties and extra interest if you can't pay it.  I would avoid postponing payment if you can, but obviously this is job and other debt dependant.Hope that helps.  I can't speak much on the actual schooling itself, having done a more IT oriented degree.</blockquote>

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