As a fellow Juris Doctor myself, I feel your pain. But here is the best advice I can give you. Don't pay the damn private loans, they are unsecured loans anyways what are they going to do. They will tank your credit score and everyone will make you so scared of that, but what will actually happen is they will start to ...more

I think we are missing the point. The issue is not about why these students got into so much debt but rather could they really avoid it? The fact that the loans exist are the crux of the problem, similar to the housing market crisis, education costs went up because you have been told that it is necessary to have a coll...more