Student Loan Debt
Staying on Top of Your Student Loans: 3 Common Habits & Solutions
You’ve taken the big step of borrowing student loan money. While you’ve conquered one hurdle, the next challenges will arise in how you handle your loan situation throughout your college years. Avoid these 3 habits and keep our suggestions in mind to break bad habits—with student loans and in life! Keeping Tabs of Your Debt…
June Newsletter 2014: Rising Student Loan Rates, The Western Undergraduate Exchange & More
It’s June! Warm afternoons, days spent with your toes in the sand at the beach, tossing aside winter and spring attire for jean shorts and tank tops… Yes, summer is here! Congratulations if you have a soon to be college freshmen. This summer will be a critical time to create your detailed college funding plan…
Where Should I be Saving for College?
Whether you have dreams of sending your newborn child to Harvard, UC Berkeley or San Diego State, you have a lot of savings ahead of you if you plan to foot part of the bill. You need to come up with a savings plan EARLY – and stick with it for many, many years. Various…
Not All College Tuitions are Created Equal
When it comes to state-by-state college tuition fees, the ranges between the highest and lowest colleges are staggering. In fact, the difference boils down to thousands upon thousands of dollars. You may wonder if a high price ticket equals an overall better institution. That should ring true for most investments. The more money you shell…
Forget Accident Forgiveness! What about Loan Forgiveness?
Feeling overwhelmed by the idea of student loans that loom years after graduating? It is indeed a heavy burden. Of the 20 million students attending college per year, about 60% require federal student loans because they lack the certification to obtain scholarships or simply cannot afford the rising costs associated with college attendance. With over…
Student Loans – How to Prevent Defaulting on Your Loan?
Student loan defaults have risen for the sixth straight year according to the Institute for College Access & Success. The percentage of borrowers who defaulted on their federal student loans within two years of their first payment jumped 9.1% in fiscal year 2011, up from 8.8% the previous year. A mid-2012 briefing paper by the…
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