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Re: Paying off 200k/300k debt on big law salary

Post by A. Nony Mouse » Fri May 23, 2014 9:31 pm

MyopicVisage wrote:I'm just curious. How do you accrue more than 200k of debt? Most banks I talked to have an aggregate loan limit of around 180k for law school. And this includes everything you've borrowed (private and federal).
The federal government makes loans up to the cost of attendance. Plenty of schools now cost $200k+ to attend.

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Re: Paying off 200k/300k debt on big law salary

Post by jkhalfa » Fri May 23, 2014 9:54 pm

Do any of you guys have significant UG debt? I'm going to graduate with ~$50k and I'm wondering if I should just shoot myself / flee the country now instead of waiting until after law school.

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Post by almondjoy » Sun May 25, 2014 3:34 am

jkhalfa wrote:Do any of you guys have significant UG debt? I'm going to graduate with ~$50k and I'm wondering if I should just shoot myself / flee the country now instead of waiting until after law school.
I'm gonna have ~100k UG debt. I loved where I went to school and I loved my time there but man...

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Post by Learn_Live_Hope » Sun May 25, 2014 6:48 pm

jkhalfa wrote:Do any of you guys have significant UG debt? I'm going to graduate with ~$50k and I'm wondering if I should just shoot myself / flee the country now instead of waiting until after law school.
Hm…thats not bad. Most of my friends have around 50K in debt.

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Post by AllTheLawz » Sun May 25, 2014 8:37 pm

Learn_Live_Hope wrote:
jkhalfa wrote:Do any of you guys have significant UG debt? I'm going to graduate with ~$50k and I'm wondering if I should just shoot myself / flee the country now instead of waiting until after law school.
Hm…thats not bad. Most of my friends have around 50K in debt.
Knew a guy with 150k from UG and another 200k from law school. So screwed.

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Re: Paying off 200k/300k debt on big law salary

Post by jkhalfa » Sun May 25, 2014 9:10 pm

Idk if I made the right choice with undergrad or not. I get a decent scholarship at a well-regarded (but expensive) public school in my state, but I probably could have done college debt-free if I had lived with my parents and commuted to a local state school. 20/20 hindsight I guess. Eighteen-year-olds really aren't qualified to make life-changing financial decisions like this, or at least I wasn't.

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Post by t-14orbust » Sun May 25, 2014 9:13 pm

jkhalfa wrote:Idk if I made the right choice with undergrad or not. I get a decent scholarship at a well-regarded (but expensive) public school in my state, but I probably could have done college debt-free if I had lived with my parents and commuted to a local state school. 20/20 hindsight I guess. Eighteen-year-olds really aren't qualified to make life-changing financial decisions like this, or at least I wasn't.
Don't worry, I chose to major in political science, so obviously I wasn't qualified to make any decisions of import either.

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Post by charles117 » Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:03 am

yikes folks

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Post by us3rnam3 » Tue Apr 04, 2017 12:51 pm

jkhalfa wrote:Idk if I made the right choice with undergrad or not. I get a decent scholarship at a well-regarded (but expensive) public school in my state, but I probably could have done college debt-free if I had lived with my parents and commuted to a local state school. 20/20 hindsight I guess. Eighteen-year-olds really aren't qualified to make life-changing financial decisions like this, or at least I wasn't.
I made the same dumb decisions. 10/10 someone should have intervened for us.

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