How much do you owe on your student loans?

How much do you owe on your student loans?

$1-$10k
8% (58 votes)
$10k-$25k
15% (110 votes)
$25k-$50k
14% (100 votes)
$50k-$100k
12% (91 votes)
$100k-$250k
10% (71 votes)
$250k-$400k
2% (14 votes)
More than Bernanke's son ($400k+)
2% (13 votes)
$0 (never took out student loans)
31% (229 votes)
$0 (paid in full)
6% (44 votes)
Total votes: 730
 
Nobama88:
Wow really surprised that most people never had to take out student loans. My guess is that its less full scholarships and more a ton of rich kids on WSO who have parents with deep pockets.
or they just click the first option they see, maybe i should rearrange the question order
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AndyLouis:
Nobama88:
Wow really surprised that most people never had to take out student loans. My guess is that its less full scholarships and more a ton of rich kids on WSO who have parents with deep pockets.
or they just click the first option they see, maybe i should rearrange the question order

Or they are European, like I am and don't have to pay such huge amounts of fees..

 

My parents were not very rich (we lived in an average condo) but because of their belief in education always saved like mad to make sure that price was never a barrier to education (also the 15K or so every year in grants was helpful from my school...). In all honesty, if I had to worry about student loans right now I would be scared s***less

 

This poll goes against all student loan statistics.

WSO is the 1%

You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake, son.
 

$0 (never took out student loans). For me, bachelor+MSc+housing costs floated around 50k euro (over a span of 5 years) and luckily we hadn't had to resort to loans.

 
Cmoss:
I dont think i would have taken school very seriously if i didnt take out student loans, no pain point if someone else is paying for it.
Trust me, when your parents are putting up 50k/year for your education, it makes you try VERY hard in school.
 
Connor:
Cmoss:
I dont think i would have taken school very seriously if i didnt take out student loans, no pain point if someone else is paying for it.
Trust me, when your parents are putting up 50k/year for your education, it makes you try VERY hard in school.

I guess IF i was lucky enough to go to a fancy(expensive) school my motivation wouldnt be cost based.

 

I think it would be interesting to find out of those who did not take out loans for college, what percentage received funding from A) parents B) themselves or C) scholarships.

Although I agree, these numbers seem way off compared to all other polls the media publishes.

 
kuaerodsp:
I think it would be interesting to find out of those who did not take out loans for college, what percentage received funding from A) parents B) themselves or C) scholarships.
yeah good idea for a follow up poll, will try to add this in a couple weeks
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International Pymp:
privileged asshole here

More like fortunate. Privileged implies I didn't use the opportunities at my disposal to their fullest or that I am ungrateful for the opportunities I have been provided. My parents came from nothing and wanted their children to succeed; having loving parents doesn't make me an asshole.

I am curious though about how many of those that selected debt free, did so on their own as I find it incredibly impressive.

 
eriginal:
International Pymp:
privileged asshole here

More like fortunate. Privileged implies I didn't use the opportunities at my disposal to their fullest or that I am ungrateful for the opportunities I have been provided. My parents came from nothing and wanted their children to succeed; having loving parents doesn't make me an asshole.

I am curious though about how many of those that selected debt free, did so on their own as I find it incredibly impressive.

haha, I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about me.... that said, I didn't mess it up... not yet...

 

Not to show of or anything but I trade and have made enough money to pay back most of my loans now... No rich parents, no scholarship, but then my fees is not $40,000 a year haha.

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