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Nextstudent Private Loans Can Help Subsidize Educational Programs From Elementary to Graduate School
Posted by admin in Private Loan on August 17, 2011
Financing an education can be a challenging feat, especially when borrowers have exhausted their personal savings and their state and federal financial aid options and still have educational expenses left to cover. NextStudent, a leading Phoenix-based education company, can help. Whether you’re a higher education student or the parent of a K–12 student, you may be eligible for a NextStudent Private Loan, a credit-based loan that could help make financing an education a reality.
Are you a parent who dreams of sending your child to a college preparatory known for strong academics like Xavier or Brophy in Phoenix, Arizona? Or are you an undergraduate or graduate student who needs a little extra money to cover your education-related expenses? Or maybe you already have your degree but can’t afford the continuing education courses you need to maintain a certification. If any of these scenarios describes your needs, NextStudent Private Student Loans are designed to help borrowers like you achieve your academic goals.
NextStudent offers credit-based private student loans that can help borrowers meet their education expenses while in school and pay for things like tuition and fees, school supplies and other education-related essentials. To be eligible, students must be enrolled at a participating school. Whether applying for one of our K–12, undergraduate, graduate or continuing education private student loans, qualified borrowers can benefit with:
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Quick preliminary approval on most student loans
No application deadlines
No prepayment penalties
Generous borrowing limits
Deferred principal and interest payments on most student loans
Funds sent directly to the borrower, not the school
Interest that may be tax-deductible (please consult your tax advisor)
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Qualifying is simple: Borrowers must provide proof of student enrollment at a participating school and proof of sufficient income (a recent pay stub, or for self-employed or retired borrowers, the most recent two years of tax returns with schedules or 1099s). In addition, borrowers must have at least 21 months of credit experience and a satisfactory credit history, and they must demonstrate two years of continuous employment (with the same employer or in the same field) and two years of U.S. citizenship or permanent residency. Don’t meet these requirements? That’s OK, a co-signer can help. NextStudent Private Student Loans feature the option of applying with a co-signer, whether you need a qualified co-applicant because you don’t quite meet the qualification requirements, or whether you’d like to have a co-applicant with a little more established credit history.
Apply Throughout the Year
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Applying is fast and convenient. Some borrowers may receive a preliminary approval in minutes. In as little as five business days, parents and students could be approved and see their student loans disbursed, with funds sent directly to the borrower. Eligible higher education students or eligible parents of K–12 students who need additional financial assistance meeting their educational needs can apply for NextStudent Private Student Loans throughout the year. There are no deadlines or time constraints. That means students can receive the funding they need, no matter when they need it.
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NextStudent believes that getting an education is the best investment you can make, and we are dedicated to helping you pursue your education dreams by making college funding simple. Learn more about Student Loans, Private Student Loans and Student Loan Consolidation at NextStudent.com.
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The lender for the NextStudent Loan Program is Charter One Bank, N.A., Member FDIC and Equal Opportunity Lender.
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Students Scramble to Find Student Loans as Fall Semester Draws Near
Posted by admin in Student Loans on December 13, 2009
It’s crunch time for college students trying to secure the money they need for the fall semester. But with lenders continuing to suspend their student loan programs — the count now stands at 131 federal loan lenders and 30 private loan lenders — students may find themselves challenged to locate lenders that are still offering federal or private student loans.
In an attempt to help lenders be able to continue making new federal student loans, the government included a provision in the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act, signed into law in May, aimed at providing capital for cash-strapped lenders.
Under this legislation, the Department of Education can buy federal college loans from lenders, thereby providing these lenders with the liquidity they need to continue funding new parent and student loans. The law specifically targets lenders who, in the current credit crunch, are unable to find investors in the secondary market willing to purchase their student loan portfolios.
Even with this legislation in place, however, lenders continue to find themselves forced to suspend their student loan programs. As recently as July 28, the Brazos Higher Education Service Corp., the 26th-largest originator of federal student loans in 2007, and the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, the largest student loan issuer to Massachusetts residents, both announced that they would no longer be able to provide either new or current borrowers with student loans.
As the suspensions of both federal and private student loan programs keep spreading through all types of lenders — large and small; for-profit and nonprofit; banks, non-banks, and credit unions; state loan agencies and schools-as-lenders — students and their families are finding themselves with fewer borrowing options to get the parent and student loans they need to pay the fall tuition bills that are coming due over these next few weeks.
Two Major Lenders the Latest Casualties of Student Loan Crisis
The Brazos Group, a primarily nonprofit group of higher education lending, servicing, and other financial aid companies, first announced that it would stop offering federal college loans back n March. In May, however, after the government passed the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act, Brazos once again began offering federal parent and student loans, saying that the government’s short-term liquidity plan had renewed the organization’s confidence in its ability to continue offering student loans.
But Brazos once again suspended its education lending program late last month, citing continued turmoil in the student loan industry.
Brazos Executive Vice President Ellis Tredway said his organization simply “ran out of time to get everything in place” to issue new student loans for the fall.
The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, which issued more than $500 million in college loans to 40,000 Massachusetts college students and their families last year, had already suspended its federal student loan program in April. Now, MEFA has also pulled the plug on its non-federal private loan program, which provided Massachusetts students with fixed-rate private student loans.
“While we continue to pursue every possible option, raising the necessary funds to offer fixed–interest rate private education loans is taking longer than originally projected and has become even more challenging,” said Tom Graf, MEFA’s executive director.
Students Face the Uncertainty of Switching Lenders
With over 8 million students and parents having turned to federal college loans in 2006–07, according to the College Board, the number or families that stand to be affected by the ongoing wave of lender departures this year is not unsubstantial.
Last week, financial aid officers at Texas A&M University — a school with over 54,000 students — heard from seven different lenders warning that they would no longer be able to offer federal student loans, a situation that has made more than a few borrowers uneasy.
Dyneche Duffield, an incoming college student headed to Houston Baptist University, is uncomfortable with the prospect of having to establish a relationship with a new lender other than her local bank, which used to offer student loans.
“I would have much rather taken out a loan there than somewhere where I didn’t know anyone,” Duffield said.
While students like Duffield may still be able to go directly to the Department of Education for their federal college loans or find those remaining lenders who are still offering private student loans (albeit with more stringent credit criteria that are making it harder for students to qualify), the magnitude of the problem within the student loan credit markets and how deeply it has permeated the college loan industry is alarming to many administrators and officials in higher education.
Kathryn Osmond, executive director of student financial services at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, finds the situation with MEFA to be particularly indicative of a long-lasting and serious problem.
“An economy that is in such a tailspin that it affects a critical agency like MEFA,” said Osmond, “is an economy that scares me.”