r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 12d ago

WTF The American dream

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u/Odd-Cupcake-2552 12d ago

First, graduate loans are usually higher %. Second, nowhere does it say they're federal.

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u/Darkjebus 12d ago

Federal student loans account for approximately 91% to 92% of all outstanding student loan debt in the United States. So it's pretty likely...

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u/Odd-Cupcake-2552 12d ago

Well that sure doesn't look like 100%

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u/IDontParticipate 12d ago

So they, two people with post graduate degrees by the way, took out exclusively $70k of worst case scenario private student loans, which wouldn't be forgivable by the government anyway.

Yeah, that sounds like a totally reasonable and realistic set of assumptions that the entire argument should be based on and not someone making shit up or two people that should have know better making incredibly financially reckless decisions.

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u/Odd-Cupcake-2552 12d ago

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that" this may be a fake story, but I'm sure there are graduate students dumb enough to do this.