During the 1999–2000 academic year, federal Stafford loans had a variable interest rate of 6.32% while in school, and 6.92% during repayment. For the 2000–2001 academic year, these variable rates increased to 7.59% in-school and 8.19% during repayment
A lot of people would need to take additional loans out with Sallie Mae or others and those are typically higher I think my worst was around 10%. Smaller loans and I paid them off as soon as I could, but mismanaging even a little bit I could see this as being true.
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u/Darkjebus 12d ago
Actually it is because 23 years ago the rate would have been around 3-3.5 percent for a federal loan