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In article <4jmjud$c2q@news.ccit.arizona.edu>,
Rella L Abernathy <rella@bonaire.ccit.arizona.edu> wrote:
>While everyone is hashing over this repayment issue, I'd like to
>find out if anyone has been successful in getting school loans
>deferred during a postdoc.  I currently have a training grant

Yes, in fact, it was the student loan people who told me about 
fellowship deferments.


>fellowship (NSF).  The administrators in charge of our
>grant do not know of any category I might fit in to keep my
>loans deferred.  Since I'm on first year NIH scale, and


The category you fit is "fellowship deferment". Pretty simple, eh? :)


>borrowed all the way through college, it's either pay loans
>or pay the rent.  My grace period is up in August, so I have
>a few months to try to devise something.  The biggest problem
>I see is that to fit into the acceptable deferment groups,
>either some medical training must be involved (none in my case),
>or an official certification must be given at the end of the
>fellowship (not in my case either).


That's not true. I'm not a medical doctor, nor have I ever been given
any sort of official certification. I've had no problem getting my 
GSL deferment forms through. Just fill out the paperwork (ask GSL for
them), get the department chair to sign it and write a cover letter
describing the nature of your work. You'll also need some sort of letter
from your mentor confirming that you are a fellow in his or her lab, etc.


Stacy