<p>Demos,</p>
<p>First, I said that law schools had loan forgiveness programs. You responded: </p>
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<p>I then acknowledged that I might have used the wrong term, but law schools DO have their own programs, which vary a lot.To me, the language you used implied that all such law school programs require you to work in public interest jobs. The schools run these programs “for those students working in public interest.” You only modified your language to say that some programs are broader than public interest AFTER I pointed that out.</p>
<p>Now, maybe you don’t plan to take a job working for a private law firm in Jackson, Mississippi, but somebody who did just that took advantage of the program at H or Y–I can’t remember which.There are plenty of places in the US where the startng salaries for attorneys in private firms makes them eligible for loan repayment programs. There are also some working parents, usually working mommies, who work part-time as attorneys and make less than the cut off and under some of these programs they are eligible too, at least for a certain amount of time. There are people who accept jobs teaching in law school who qualify. And some people DO start their own firms a few years out of law school and if it takes them a few years to get established, they may be eligible too. </p>
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<p>I know people who do go to H or Y for those programs. Indeed, I know people who didn’t even apply to S because what they wanted to do wouldn’t make them eligible for S’s program but did make them eligible for H or Y’s. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but for a while there, H’s program treated married people better than Y’s program did (if the spouse earned substantial income), and I know people who chose H over Y for that reason. </p>
<p>Some people make choices between Root-Tilden (or whatever it’s called now) or the Furman at NYU [Furman</a> Academic Program | NYU School of Law](<a href=“http://www.law.nyu.edu/furmanprogram]Furman”>http://www.law.nyu.edu/furmanprogram) and HYS. The fact that beginning academics qualified for H and Y’s programs did impact their decision whether to accept a Furman or go to H or Y. </p>
<p>So, my point is that I think the choices are more nuanced than you suggest…and that for that reason your posts are misleading for people in certain circumstances. YMMV, and obviously does.</p>
<p>That’s fine. This is a message board and no sane person should rely on either of us in deciding which offer to accept.</p>