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If federal student loans are guarantee d by the government, private student loans are not connected with government. They are provided by different private financial institutions like banks and loan companies. There are many controversial opinions about private loans, because these loans are controversial themselves. From one side, they have such advantage as bigger amount of money in comparison with federal student loans, flexible conditions of repayment. From other hand, they have such disadvantages as higher interest rates and different additional fees.
Private loans can be of two types – school-channel loans and direct-to-consumer loans. In first case, money is transferred to school and it uses this money on order to pay education expenses of definite student. As you may guess, student doesn’t have freedom to use this money; everything is under school’s control. In this case, it is also necessary to wait definite time in order to get necessary money. These loans have lower interest rates.
Direct-to-consumer private student loan is a loan when money is directly transferred to student and he has the freedom to use it. This type of private student loans presupposes higher interest rates on comparison with other type, but the process of receiving this loans and money is faster, within couple of days. Many people claim that this type of loan is not very safe for students, because often studiers are not able to control their expenses and they can sue money in a wrong way.

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