private loans

Hi everyone! After discussion with my school's financial aid I have accepted that I will need to apply for private loans (institutional scholarships will not be enough to cover the gap between tuition/living expenses and the federal loan amount). Thankfully, I was able to use need-based...

Hello, I will most likely be attending a US medical school this year whose tuition is just over 70,000 a year. The total COA is around 106K. It will start after the BBB goes into effect, which practically means for me that I can take up to 50,000 a year in private loans and will have to take...

There seem to be few customizable budgeting tools out there to help incoming MS1s create and manage their budget, borrowing needs and repayment options. The following was created by Juno, alongside SDN, for sharing broadly and covers all of the above, including repayment and forgiveness (PSLF)...

Student Doctor Network members who have been accepted to medical school next year are invited to apply to become a Juno Premed Student Ambassador. Juno is not a lender. We are an advocacy organization founded out of an experiment at Harvard Business School in 2018, and focused on helping...

Seeing a lot of concern about access to private loans next year, but not a lot of guidance.... Hopefully this is helpful... would love to hear how others are thinking about this. What’s exactly changing: Beginning July 1, 2026, new medical students will be capped at: $50,000 per year in federal...

Or does that debt hinder the chances of getting approved for private student loans for medical school? I just want to know before I get a bachelor's degree and spend all this time and energy getting into medical school, and then can't even afford it. I know I can automatically get subsidized...

Or does that debt hinder the chances of getting approved for private student loans for medical school? I just want to know before I get a bachelor's degree and spend all this time and energy getting into medical school, and then can't even afford it. I know I can automatically get subsidized...

Hi SDNers, So ideally, I'd like to do an MD/MPH program. From what I've heard, these typically take 5 years to complete. Upon graduation, I'll be in ~$50+ worth of debt (85% private, 15% fed). I'd like to defer repayment during med school but given my private lender limits in-school deferment...

I have a question that may be silly/dumb to some, but that I need to ask out of curiousity I have $30k in private school loans that I used for school building up at an interest rate of 9% I just got into med school, and according to the estimate, I will get tuition covered (thank God) I got...