An essential part of planning for law school must include a consideration of its cost. Unless you are independently wealthy, subsidized by your family, or have managed to work and save significant money, chances are you will graduate from law school with sizeable debt. Most importantly, you must become informed before you enroll about costs and financial aid. Find out what the COA is for the law schools to which you have been accepted. Students frequently turn to private loans for that money, especially since law schools strongly discourage you from working during your first year.
Private loans are available from a number of different lenders.
It is best to choose one lender after comparison shopping and stay with the same one to make repayment and renegotiation easier. Another way to help fund your costs while in law school is through scholarships. What you don't want to do is pay money to get information on scholarships - because you can do just as well yourself with your own search. Law schools themselves, cognizant of the increasingly daunting costs of a legal education, are beginning to respond by providing more merit based grants. Although this type of aid has been, until recently, most typically available from the less competitive schools, even some of the top schools are starting to do this.