NYU Class of 2014 Forum

[ahduth]

it's a lottery. so as long as you're in before they start assigning, then you will have just as good a chance to get a studio as someone who submitted in march.

I think the deadline for the submission date to not be considered was sometime in mid-May.

[ahduth]

You guys can LRAP too...

But what about BIGLAWWWWWWWW

Big Law: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/busin ... wyers.html

[glitched]

it's a lottery. so as long as you're in before they start assigning, then you will have just as good a chance to get a studio as someone who submitted in march.

I think the deadline for the submission date to not be considered was sometime in mid-May.

wellllll then.

[Ratchet Jackson]

You guys can LRAP too...

But what about BIGLAWWWWWWWW

Big Law: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/busin ... wyers.html

Roughly the same amount of work/stress for a fraction of the salary? Sign me up.

[neyaae]

I'm planning on relying on LRAP too...I just have this fear that the government will end the IBR or whatever it's called...when I visited other schools they said the subsidized stafford loans are probably going away after this year, has anyone heard anything?

[booboo]

You guys can LRAP too...

But what about BIGLAWWWWWWWW

Big Law: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/busin ... wyers.html

Roughly the same amount of work/stress for a fraction of the salary? Sign me up.

RC Fail?

[Ratchet Jackson]

RC Fail?

It was more facetious in response to the guy's quote on the first page. He feels like he's doing the same work as partner-track. I know the billable quota is much lower for non-partner track positions.

[spacepenguin]

RC Fail?

It was more facetious in response to the guy's quote on the first page. He feels like he's doing the same work as partner-track. I know the billable quota is much lower for non-partner track positions.

Same type of work, different hours. It would be awesome if the debt weren't so crushing.

[Ratchet Jackson]

RC Fail?

It was more facetious in response to the guy's quote on the first page. He feels like he's doing the same work as partner-track. I know the billable quota is much lower for non-partner track positions.

Same type of work, different hours. It would be awesome if the debt weren't so crushing.

Yeah it seems like a really crappy alternative, especially when you have partner-track on the mind. I'm still maintaining the firm belief that the legal market will boom exponentially by 2014...I hope I'm not crazy.

[spacepenguin]

RC Fail?

It was more facetious in response to the guy's quote on the first page. He feels like he's doing the same work as partner-track. I know the billable quota is much lower for non-partner track positions.

Same type of work, different hours. It would be awesome if the debt weren't so crushing.

Yeah it seems like a really crappy alternative, especially when you have partner-track on the mind. I'm still maintaining the firm belief that the legal market will boom exponentially by 2014...I hope I'm not crazy.

Was that intentional?

[incompetentia]

Is it bad that I'm using my expected future reliance on LRAP as an excuse to splurge when it comes to loans? It's like, yeah, I could take less than the COL budget and try to get a really cheap apartment, but all of my loans are going to be repaid for me. I could buy a $400 PC and use a Windows OS I'm not very familiar with, or I could just take the full laptop allowance and ball out with a new Macbook.

You're not the only one who is thinking this.


My mom doesn't understand why she can't give me a few hundred dollars a month interest-free so I can take out a smaller amount of loans

[glitched]

RC Fail?

It was more facetious in response to the guy's quote on the first page. He feels like he's doing the same work as partner-track. I know the billable quota is much lower for non-partner track positions.

Same type of work, different hours. It would be awesome if the debt weren't so crushing.

Yeah it seems like a really crappy alternative, especially when you have partner-track on the mind. I'm still maintaining the firm belief that the legal market will boom exponentially by 2014...I hope I'm not crazy.

well if you have all four of these characteristics, then it's not a crappy alternative at all:
1. You are someone who wants a life outside of your career
2. You have 0 debt
3. You don't care about money
4. You want to practice law

[Ratchet Jackson]

well if you have all four of these characteristics, then it's not a crappy alternative at all:
1. You are someone who wants a life outside of your career
2. You have 0 debt
3. You don't care about money
4. You want to practice law

Good point.

[ahduth]

well if you have all four of these characteristics, then it's not a crappy alternative at all:
1. You are someone who wants a life outside of your career
2. You have 0 debt
3. You don't care about money
4. You want to practice law

Good point.

You want to live in Wheeling, WV.

edit: the whole point of these "internal outsourcing" arrangements is to move the jobs to lower cost locales. I worked on it a bunch with a company I worked at - why have Finance staff in Chicago when you can have them in Waco, TX?

[somewhere]

I'm planning on relying on LRAP too...I just have this fear that the government will end the IBR or whatever it's called...when I visited other schools they said the subsidized stafford loans are probably going away after this year, has anyone heard anything?

"Subsidized stafford loans" are not likely to go away. Federal loan cancellation might, since nobody's loans have been cancelled yet so not many people are paying attention to how much it's going to cost. But if it does go away, it'll most likely be after the first group of cancellations goes through, which will be after 2014— and if you're already enrolled in the program, it's pretty unlikely that they'd cancel it retroactively for people already enrolled, even if they cancel it going forward.

Also, NYU has repeatedly expressed their commitment to at least the level of LRAP they were giving last year, which was not dependent on IBR or loan cancellation. So even if the federal stuff all evaporates, and NYU can't afford the same sweet deal they've just started by piggy-backing on the federal programs, they'll revert back to what they were doing before, which was less sweet but still one of the best LRAPs around.

[thegrayman]

Yay my deposit check finally cleared, they sat on that thing forever!

[nihilism is key]

am i the only one that submitted online? seemed like the easier option to me.

[incompetentia]

Didn't find out about online deposit until the day after I sent my check in.

Besides, who wants to conduct business over the Internet? I hear it's unsafe

[thegrayman]

am i the only one that submitted online? seemed like the easier option to me.

Had I known, I would have. I didn't even realize we could

[Ratchet Jackson]

am i the only one that submitted online? seemed like the easier option to me.

I definitely thought this was the norm...

[glitched]

i sent it in cash...

[incompetentia]

i sent it in cash...

I can make sure your, uh, tuition payments get in safely...

[sgtgrumbles]

i sent it in cash...

I can make sure your, uh, tuition payments get in safely...

Is that avatar stolen from another user? Who is that in it? WHY MUST YOU CONFUSE ME?!

[Ratchet Jackson]

i sent it in cash...

I can make sure your, uh, tuition payments get in safely...

Is that avatar stolen from another user? Who is that in it? WHY MUST YOU CONFUSE ME?!

Yeah, the girl in that tar creeps me out. Who she be?

[incompetentia]

Oh, this was Crumpets' tar (at my request). When she changed it, I had to take drastic measures.


It's Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones (she plays Daenerys with that godawful bleached-looking hair).


She's mine.