American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College Loans

Re:American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College... by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:34PM (#11029033)

> The bankruptcy prohibition is why you even see loans in the single digits.

No, the reason you see loans in the single digits is because the government is both the sole lender (since the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) and sets the rates by law.

What private lenders would accept was only relevant when there were private lenders.

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Re:American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College... by harryh on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:39PM (#11029091)

There are numerous private lenders that offer student loans. A google search will easily lead you to dozens of them.

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Re:American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College... by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:41PM (#11029116)

> There are numerous private lenders that offer student loans.

Not federally subsidized ones; the program under which such loans were offered through private lenders in addition to directly by the government was discontinued several years ago (as noted in the grandparent comment.) The upthread comment was about interest rates on federally subsidized loans.

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Re:American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College... by harryh on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:45PM (#11029142)

OK yes. That's correct. I think perhaps it's easy to read your comment and think that there aren't private lenders at all anymore. I just wanted to point out that this is not the case.

You're correct that private student loan lending is no longer subsidized and hence the rates tend to be higher.

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