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Student loan debt

Published on Dec 18, 2015

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Affects From Student Loans

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Reasons for taking on student loans

  • The feeling of having no other choice
  • Not having all the money be there
  • Not working your hardest in school
  • Hasn't saved up enough
  • Not knowing about all the scholarships and grants
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Long term effects of student loan debt

  • Affect your chances of living your dream job
  • increase how much time you spend on making money
  • limit your extra time
  • increase in stress rate
  • all of your money goes to debt and bills
  • debt will hang around you for many years
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Ways to avoid debt in college

  • In high school work hard get good grades
  • Research and apply to all scholarships available to you
  • To save money you could go to a community college
  • Go to a work study or work training enviorment
  • Work on and/or off campus some during school and most of the time when you're on break
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Example

  • My aunt has $10,000 in student loans. She has three children and is working three jobs. she will have to pay $416.67 a month to pay off the debt. Her and the kids will be living very tightly for the next two years.
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Distribution of student loan debt when they graduate

You can avoid it all by just preparing early for college!