Comments on: Student loans have to start being paid off 6 months after you graduate. What if you continue to law school? http://studentloanquestions.org/student-loans/student-loans-have-to-start-being-paid-off-6-months-after-you-graduate-what-if-you-continue-to-law-school Answers to all of your questions about student loans. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: NotAnyoneYouKnow http://studentloanquestions.org/student-loans/student-loans-have-to-start-being-paid-off-6-months-after-you-graduate-what-if-you-continue-to-law-school/comment-page-1#comment-586 NotAnyoneYouKnow Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:45:43 +0000 http://studentloanquestions.org/student-loans/student-loans-have-to-start-being-paid-off-6-months-after-you-graduate-what-if-you-continue-to-law-school#comment-586 j: As long as you remain a full-time student, you will continue to qualify for "in-school deferment". You won't have to begin paying your loans back until you finish law school. The only requirement is that you remain registered at least half-time at an eligible institution, and that you don't take more than 6 months off at any time during your schooling. By the way - this is an automatic feature of government-backed student loans (Stafford/Perkins/PLUS), but it is not necessarily characteristic of all private loans. Also remember that the in-school deferment requires attendance at an "eligible" school. Some students have pursued law or medical degrees at foreign universities, only to discover that some of these schools are not participants in the Federal Student Aid program, and therefore, ineligible for in-school deferment. I hope that helps - good luck to you! j:

As long as you remain a full-time student, you will continue to qualify for “in-school deferment”. You won’t have to begin paying your loans back until you finish law school.

The only requirement is that you remain registered at least half-time at an eligible institution, and that you don’t take more than 6 months off at any time during your schooling.

By the way – this is an automatic feature of government-backed student loans (Stafford/Perkins/PLUS), but it is not necessarily characteristic of all private loans. Also remember that the in-school deferment requires attendance at an “eligible” school. Some students have pursued law or medical degrees at foreign universities, only to discover that some of these schools are not participants in the Federal Student Aid program, and therefore, ineligible for in-school deferment.

I hope that helps – good luck to you!

]]> By: spalmer http://studentloanquestions.org/student-loans/student-loans-have-to-start-being-paid-off-6-months-after-you-graduate-what-if-you-continue-to-law-school/comment-page-1#comment-585 spalmer Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:45 +0000 http://studentloanquestions.org/student-loans/student-loans-have-to-start-being-paid-off-6-months-after-you-graduate-what-if-you-continue-to-law-school#comment-585 If you continue to law school, then your loans would stay in deferment (meaning that you would not start paying them back). You can keep your student loans in deferment while you are in school. If you continue to law school, then your loans would stay in deferment (meaning that you would not start paying them back). You can keep your student loans in deferment while you are in school.

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