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private loans

private loans

what you need to know.

Private student loans - also known as alternative student loans -- may offer better interest rates than other lines of credit. Sallie Mae® offers private loans to cover the gamut of higher education needs:

  • Tuition Answer® Loan - for creditworthy undergraduate and graduate students or parents, with or without co-signers
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  • Continuing Education LoanSM - for part-time students seeking degrees, and post-secondary students not seeking degrees
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  • K-12 Family Education LoanSM - for those with children in private K-12 schools
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  • Tutorial Financing Loan - for parents sending a child to a tutoring centers
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You'll be happy to know that, with Upromise Loan LinkSM, you can use your Upromise savings to help pay down your eligible Sallie Mae loans.

A word to the wise.

Be conservative! Only turn to private student loans to help cover your expenses after you've exhausted all other sources of financial aid. And only borrow what you absolutely need.

Upromise is not a lender or loan broker, except where its activities require it to be so licensed. Upromise does not broker or make loans and is not engaged in the business of making or brokering loans. Upromise does not procure, solicit, offer, arrange, place, find, obtain, endorse, negotiate, originate or process loans, or assist or advise anyone in obtaining, procuring or making a loan (or attempt or represent that it will to do any of the foregoing). Upromise does not participate in credit decisions in connection with loans. Upromise is not an agent for any lender (we refer to these as "Lenders"), or for any consumer or for any person seeking a loan. Upromise's services on behalf of any Lender in connection with any loan are limited to administrative and marketing services. Upromise does not guarantee that completing an application for credit will result in your receiving a loan or credit card from a Lender.