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The vibe I get from most people around here is that there are very few paying 1L jobs. For those of you without paying 1L jobs, how do you support yourself during the summer? Do you take out more loans at the beginning of your 1L year and anticipate that you will need that money over the summer?

I am paying with what little money I have left in savings from prior earnings/savings, which will be completely drained soon. Others live frugally through the year and save up from 1L loans. Others move back in with mom and dad. Others have parents who are more than willing to let their 1L continue to suckle at their teats. You can't borrow more money 1L years because the maximum amount is based on total COA. So unless you have some means to secure a private loan, no luck there (of course, if you can do that, you have enough to make it through the summer w/o pay anyway). sucks out there. hth.

I'm a 0L, but I am planning on just trying my best to stretch my loan money to twelve months. My school does not give us nearly as much as other schools (they budget 12,300 for the year), but I'm still positive I can make it work.

Part of my strategy will also to be to try and find something in my hometown market so I can live at my parents house and eat their food all summer.

I'm living off of what's left of my 1L loans. It requires being frugal, but it's completely doable.

Don't forget that some schools give aid to those who do non-profit work during 1L summer. Don't NYU and Penn do this? Probably others too. I seem to recall that it is just $5,000 or something, but that sure it hidden aid.

my school gives $3000 stipend to those doing eligible non-profit work this summer. unfortunately working for a judge is not covered

NU has a program where you can get hooked up with $5k. it's pretty great.

sumus romani wrote:Don't forget that some schools give aid to those who do non-profit work during 1L summer. Don't NYU and Penn do this? Probably others too. I seem to recall that it is just $5,000 or something, but that sure it hidden aid.

NYU does. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details -- I think it's $4500 1L summer, and they bump it to $6500 if you do it again 2L summer.