First the good news: Bad credit isn't a death knell
for student loan applicants, since most undergraduate loan money comes from the federal government and the feds don't use credit scores to approve applicants.
The outage of an important government tool could have serious consequences for current student loan borrowers around the country, not
just student loan applicants working with the FAFSA.
The major problems are 1) people who are taking out these loans are often young (new laws that apply to credit card applications of people under 21 stipulate that they must prove the ability to pay off the balance, this does not hold for 18 - year -
old student loan applicants) 2) these loans can not be discharged in bankruptcy 3) interest rates for student loans are now higher than rates for most mortgages.
Origination fees are often seen as a large burden to
a student loan applicant.
Only a mere 4.90 percent of private
student loan applicants were approved for a private student loan when they lacked cosigners.
In our report below, you will find original and exclusive data collected from 80,000 private
student loan applicants that have gone through LendEDU since the start of 2016.
According to LendEDU's database, the average FICO credit score of
a student loan applicant was 647.