Uncertified student loans, also known as direct-to-consumer student loans, are private education loans that don’t have to be verified by your college in order to get an approval. Most private education loans require a school official to “certify” that the amount of the loan does not go over what is your cost of attendance minus [...]

Sallie Mae student loans include education loans that are provided by the company Sallie Mae. Before the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act was signed into law in 2010, Sallie Mae served as a lender for both federal and private student loans. Now they are only able to provide private student loans due to the [...]

Students sometimes have questions about the differences between federal and government student loans, when in reality they shouldn’t as they are both roughly the same thing. I say “roughly” because using the term government student loans can sometimes refer to both federal, and state student loans, and not simply the education loans that are provided [...]

FFELP Student Loans are education loans that were provided via the Federal Family Education Loan Program that recently came to a close with the enactment of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, or SAFRA. The FFEL Program had been in existence since 1965, and had been a favorite of colleges, and other postsecondary institutions [...]

AES student loans are essentially any student loan that is serviced by the company American Education Services. AES doesn’t act as a lender for any student loan, and rather acts as a servicer for a wide-variety of education loans, including various FFELP loans, and numerous private student loans. As a student loan servicer, AES collects [...]

Paying back student loans is not much different than paying back other forms of debt, although there are some subtle differences that are worth noting, such as the multitude of repayment benefits that typically come with most education loans. These repayment benefits range from deferment, and forbearance, all the way to the variety of payment [...]

Forbearance

Forbearance is a way you can go about postponing your student loan payment, and is not that much different than a deferment, except in one area. Deferments don’t capitalize the interest that accrues during the actual time that you delay the repayment term, a forbearances does. This means that over the long-run a forbearance will [...]

Deferment

Deferment is a way you can postpone when you have to make a payment on your student loans. It works as long as the lender of your loan is willing to grant you such a postponement, and is typically a more prevalent option for federal student loan debt. This is because federal education loans inherently [...]

Knowing how to get student loans with no cosigner is critical if you have no credit, or bad credit, and still need to come up with a significant amount of money to pay for your college education. While many students lose hope when they find out that most private student loan lenders will always require [...]

This is perhaps the number one question I hear from students, and while the answer is of course “yes”, the truth is that most students won’t be able to get a private student loan without a cosigner because they haven’t had the time to build up their credit history. Private student loan lenders require a [...]