Episode 42: Heather Jarvis, Student Loan Expert, Talks About Law School Debt

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Student Loan Expert Heather Jarvis addresses the following topics: What are need-based versus merit-based scholarships? How does tuition discounting work? How should students ask for more scholarship money? Tips for borrowing and reducing living expenses in law school. Should you borrow money from an IRA investment account or take out student loans to pay for law school? We also answer the following questions from listeners: Melissa is a 34-years-old mother who is considering law school. She asks about a LSAT prep strategy and whether to take a practice LSAT as her first step. Eric asks about "must be true" questions and when to diagram Logical Reasoning questions. Take a listen and let us know what you think. And don’t forget to sign up for our email newsletter. Everyone who signs up will receive updates and sample chapters of the upcoming Logic Games Playbook! Sign up and we’ll be in touch!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Thinking El Sad podcast. This is episode 42. My name is Ben Olson and I'm in Washington, D.C.
0:17.5	With me today, I have Nathan Fox in San Francisco and Heather Jarvis, the student loan expert in, wait, did you say
0:28.2	Wilmington, North Carolina?
0:32.2	Okay, great.
0:33.0	So, Nathan, how you doing?
0:35.0	Awesome, man.
0:36.0	Yeah, how are you?
0:37.0	Good, good.
0:38.0	A little sweaty actually, I just ran here, so.
0:41.0	But other than that, good.
0:42.0	How about you, Heather?
0:44.0	Doing great, a little sleepy, but working on some more coffee.
0:48.0	Oh, okay. Good, good. Well, so we're going to talk about student loan stuff obviously because we have Heather
0:56.4	here today and then we'll take some other questions from listeners and we do have a couple questions
1:01.6	specifically for you Heather but before we jump into those
1:05.4	questions I guess I want to introduce you a little bit to our listeners so they
1:10.5	know who you are and where you're coming from.
1:13.0	When I was reading your bio,
1:16.0	before the show started, I noticed that you went to Duke Law School, right?
1:22.0	I did. Go Blue devils. Okay good and you yourself this you
1:28.2	explained that you graduated and had a lot of student loan debt and maybe that's part of the reason you're doing
1:34.5	what you're doing now I guess or what what's your your story there?
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