See how Sallie Makes Sense: A Series

While 60% of families reported using scholarships to pay for college in 2022, millions of dollars in scholarships go unclaimed each year. Nearly 50% of families believe scholarships are only for exceptionally gifted students, and 36% of families think scholarships aren’t worth applying to if the parents make too much money.

The reality is, there are scholarships available for every kind of student and just about every interest, and every scholarship earned can help students and families responsibly pay for college. As a responsible private lender, Sallie Mae helps students and families – especially those from underserved communities – access scholarships and confidently navigate their journey to and through higher education.

In this video, Sallie Mae’s Donna Vieira highlights our free scholarship search tool, which opens the door to more than 6 million scholarships, worth up to $30 billion in free money.

Sallie Mae supports all students on their journeys to, through, and immediately after college, and while we know higher education opens the door to greater opportunities, only about 40% of families have a plan to pay for it.

Sallie Mae is here to help students and families responsibly access and complete their higher education. Watch Sallie Mae’s Nic Jafarieh break down how students and families can plan for college using our 1-2-3 step approach to college financing. As a responsible private lender, Sallie Mae provides free tools and resources to help students and families. Visit SallieMae.com/CollegePlanning for more information.

As a private student lender, Sallie Mae is committed to helping students and families effectively manage their student loan payments. Private student loans – which are fully underwritten to assess creditworthiness and ability to repay – make up 7.61% of the $1.7 trillion student loan market.

The majority of students – roughly 43 million Americans – have federal student loans, which make up 93% of all student loans today. Too often, students and families lack awareness about who and how much they owe, and how they can repay their loans. In fact, according to our 2022 College Confidence report, almost half of families expect to borrow money to pay for college, but roughly the same number of families don’t know federal loans need to be repaid.

In this video, Sallie Mae’s Kristin Hawley-Johnson shares three tips for students and recent graduates to effectively manage their student loans.

Whatever their educational journeys may be, Sallie Mae is here to guide students to make informed decisions about paying for college and set them up for success before and after graduation.

There is no single path to higher education. In fact, nearly half of students entering college are over 25, and 40% are over 35. Some students attend four-year universities, while others choose two-year or vocational programs.

Sallie Mae is here to support all students on their unique journeys to higher education. Watch to learn more from Ventrice Diggs-King about Sallie Mae’s free tools and resources to help students plan and pay for higher education – no matter what their path may be.

Source: https://higheredconnects.com/non-traditional-students/ for statistics about non-traditional students included in video.