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Common Student Loan Scams and How To Avoid Them

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on February 25, 2025
With the ever-increasing cost of college, many students need to take out a student loan to pay for college. Looking for low-cost student loans to cover your college tuition can be a trying process. Repaying your loans with interest after graduation can be even more daunting. When you’re under that kind of stress, it’s easy to fall …
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Student Loan Delinquency and How to Avoid it

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on December 22, 2022
Once your college days are over and you have that first post-graduate job, it feels great to be able to be your own person financially and pay for things when you need or want them. One of the negative aspects of this, however, comes in the form of looming student loan delinquency. You signed that …
Unfortunately, federal loan interest rates are on the rise
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Federal Loan Interest Rates On The Rise

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on March 6, 2025
The last thing any student wants to hear is that attending college or graduate school is going to cost more than it did before. Or, that their federal student loan’s interest rate is increasing. Unfortunately, that is the reality. Not only have tuition fees gone up, but federal loan interest rates are on the rise …
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How To Decide If An MBA Is Right For You

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on March 24, 2025
Getting an MBA may sound impressive—and is—but it is important to realize that it is not the right path for everyone. Whether you should enroll in business school or not depends on a variety of factors. Asking yourself these few questions will give you better clarity on your career goals and help you make an …
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How To Get Out Of Student Loan Default

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on March 6, 2025
Taking out student loans to pay for college is already stressful. The last thing any borrower wants is to let their loan go into default. Keep in mind that there’s a difference between delinquency and defaulting. Delinquency is when you initially miss a payment. Defaulting is when you miss a payment and don’t make any …
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How To Discover A College Based On Your Intended Major

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on December 22, 2022
Discovering colleges based on your intended college major may sound easy—you just do a search online and you will get a list of hundreds of colleges that match your search term within seconds. Right? Searching for Colleges But things can get complicated from there. How do you narrow down that list? Should you do it …

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