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Am I at any disadvantage with getting loans, and scholarships, etc. I have been married for about three years (to a U.S. born citizen) therefore that's how I will have the green card and eventual citizenship(I'm very familiar with the process.) I am guessing there shouldn't be much of a difference for me in the applying process with the loans right? (If I am in good standing with everything else.) Opposed to how I am doing it right now by paying everything up front 100% (Undergrad, BA-Economics/Political Science, 4.0 GPA. LSAT-not due but I love that type of stuff. BTW, I am from Romania, San Francisco since 99' then Las Vegas since 04' back and forth 50/50 since 2008-2011 from here to the Bay Area working, just so you know a little bit about me, maybe a little too much lol, additionally I am twenty two years old.) Thank you.

bump, anyone???? anything will be valuable

The only slight disadvantage I know of is the 1L summer job search will be slightly hindered as you may be precluded from many government jobs, such as SEC, for not being a citizen.

SplitMyPants wrote:The only slight disadvantage I know of is the 1L summer job search will be slightly hindered as you may be precluded from many government jobs, such as SEC, for not being a citizen.

Ha, I haven't even considered planning anything based on any employment during law school! Everything has been planned to strictly the sticker cost and living costs. I figure I have to really want to go (I really will go) for me to still be motivated after seeing that plan, lol. So, I know there's alot of talk about this, but would going T14 potentially have the best jobs during LS, or would being an outstanding applicant/candidate type that goes T14-T40 that will stand out in the area's market, respectively.

This site has an abundance of information in past threads. I'd suggest searching through them to help guide you through this whole process.
Start here: http://www.top-law-schools.com/admissions.html

Then, search through past threads to find answers to specific questions. (I would use google instead of the built-in search engine, just append "site:top-law-schools.com" to your search.)

I'll leave off by saying, don't pay sticker anywhere and always assume you'll be median regardless of where you go.

I can tell you from experience that for purposes of loans etc, you'll be treated just like a citizen if you have a greencard. If you are a male, and first entered the US before turning 26, and didn't register for selective service, you may have a problem though.

ETA I see you're 22; if you haven't registered for selective service yet, get on it asap.

Hand wrote:I can tell you from experience that for purposes of loans etc, you'll be treated just like a citizen if you have a greencard. If you are a male, and first entered the US before turning 26, and didn't register for selective service, you may have a problem though.

ETA I see you're 22; if you haven't registered for selective service yet, get on it asap.

I can't register for selective service, because I don't have a SS# at the moment. Other than that, I told them I would go in the military if it came down to it, preferably an officer. Although, I cannot do that neither because you need to be a citizen, and I wanted to be special forces (Also need citizenship.) This is irrelevant to registering for the selective service, but what if I can't serve in the military due to the Lautenberg Amendment/agreement, would I need to register for selective service if they won't even let me serve as a volunteer????

SplitMyPants wrote:This site has an abundance of information in past threads. I'd suggest searching through them to help guide you through this whole process.
Start here: http://www.top-law-schools.com/admissions.html

Then, search through past threads to find answers to specific questions. (I would use google instead of the built-in search engine, just append "site:top-law-schools.com" to your search.)

I'll leave off by saying, don't pay sticker anywhere and always assume you'll be median regardless of where you go.

I always do this first. Windows 10 (or my laptop) has this really nice feature where you can just type in the blank url (without anything past .com/ and press enter and it will make the url go away and say "search only on this site" so I can just go twitter.com/enter and it will say "Search twitter:" ____

IAmLawSchool wrote:

Hand wrote:I can tell you from experience that for purposes of loans etc, you'll be treated just like a citizen if you have a greencard. If you are a male, and first entered the US before turning 26, and didn't register for selective service, you may have a problem though.

ETA I see you're 22; if you haven't registered for selective service yet, get on it asap.

I can't register for selective service, because I don't have a SS# at the moment. Other than that, I told them I would go in the military if it came down to it, preferably an officer. Although, I cannot do that neither because you need to be a citizen, and I wanted to be special forces (Also need citizenship.) This is irrelevant to registering for the selective service, but what if I can't serve in the military due to the Lautenberg Amendment/agreement, would I need to register for selective service if they won't even let me serve as a volunteer????

Yeah, you'll need to register regardless, so go get a SSN. You can't take out federal loans if you haven't registered but should have.

No, the SSN isn't the problem, even when I get one the problem still stands. They won't let me volunteer in the military, I have tried (Kinda glad they didn't, lol) So if I tried to volunteer and they didn't let me (Even if I were a citizen.) If they have a draft, would they get rid of the Lautenberg agreement?

Nice, I guess i'll just have to find out if there is a draft and I get selected! (I actually would love this.) So, I just went to the selective service website and it says if you don't have a SSN, use the fillable form and mail it in (Opposed to online registration.) The fillable form also asks for my SSN, do I just leave it blank? Also, it's irrelevant that I did it at 22, as long as I did it right? They literally didn't have this "fillable form" option before.

IAmLawSchool wrote:Nice, I guess i'll just have to find out if there is a draft and I get selected! (I actually would love this.) So, I just went to the selective service website and it says if you don't have a SSN, use the fillable form and mail it in (Opposed to online registration.) The fillable form also asks for my SSN, do I just leave it blank? Also, it's irrelevant that I did it at 22, right? They literally didn't have this "fillable form" option before.

Should be ok to do it late, as far as I understand matters. And it doesn't matter whether you can actually serve in the armed forces or not; you need to register regardless. There's not gonna be a draft anyway.