Bragging rights?

[Anonymous]

This may have been covered before, but what is everyone's approximate student loan balance?  Mine is $39k.  I thought if I'd hear from others with higher balances I wouldn't feel so bad. 

[Travis-84]

Sorry to disapoint.

15.5k

[Tazman81]

Well, mine were about $69k, but I've gotten them down to $41k.  Ah, worse thing I ever did was not pay at least the interest on these while I was in school.  

But its all good, they have come down substantially as I've been dumping as much money toward them as I can.

[haulingthescoreup]

Well, when DD#1 is graduated from med school in another year and a half, she'll have over a quarter million dollars' worth of loans.

Does that help? 

[Tazman81]

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@haulingthescoreup wrote:

Well, when DD#1 is graduated from med school in another year and a half, she'll have over a quarter million dollars' worth of loans.

Does that help? 

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I bow down.

[SMikulski49]

 started out with 60K now I am down to around 22 ahh it feels like its never gonna end Good thing is my parents helped me with a lot of them so I dont have to pay interest, just slowly paying back my parents

[laz98]

mine are somewhere around $50k.  but i'm going to be going to graduate school next year, so that's just going to go up up up

[mazinaige]

I just crested $200K for a doctorate. I was able to earn an undergraduate degree without acquiring any debt so this is all graduate school expenses. I am so relieved that I am eligible for the income based repayment / ten year public service loan forgiveness program. There would have been no hope of getting out of debt without it.

[Anonymous]

when i finished culinary school i had $20K, after years of minimum payments and several lengthy voluntary forbearances later, i have $30K.  someone should have told me how little return there is on that type of educational investment!  needless to say, i don't work in food & beverage any more.

my wife has about $60K right now, and that's about to go up while she's finishing her bachelors in the next year or two.

[Anonymous]

LOL If ya want to call it bragging rights   then I will say that I have about $54,000  and I am only making the min. payments cause, it ain't worth struggling to pay extra a month only to figure out I will probably paying for my house the same time I finish paying back my loans for school! Ha so much for going to school and trying to make more money! Shoulda just went to work right out of high school and would be in the same place I am in now without the debt!!!!! MAYBE!!!