How much money is too much to borrow for college? Experts disagree. Both lenders and government suffer from a surprising lack of information about how we borrowers really manage during the years after we start paying our loans. Most of us don't default. But how much effort that costs us, how it gets in the way of our buying other things like cars and houses, nobody really knows. Frankly, until now, few people have asked.

We all agree on one thing, though: when you look at your loans in total, that number doesn't give you the real feeling of what you own. In order to understand what you're really considering, it helps to look at your loans by breaking them down into monthly payments. Then, you get a sense of how much money you will need to make if you want to pay your loans off comfortably.

Most estimates I have encountered place the average college debt at close to $11,000. Remember this is for undergraduate school; the dept of graduate school is going to be even higher. According to a study done by USA Group Loan Services/USA Group, you will be comfortable if you can keep your student loan payments at or below eight percent of your monthly income. Here's an example: if you borrowed what they list as the average amount, $10,146, your monthly payment would be about $123. That's definitely manageable. You have to make more than $18,500 a year to keep it under eight percent of your monthly income, but you can probably do that.

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You can see that a lot of cases, we really have just one practical option. We can consolidate our loans, which means we will now be paying for up to thirty years instead of ten. It also means that because of added interest, the loan is thousands of dollars bigger than we started our with. Our payments will still be in the $200 range, high enough to be irritation, if not a major pain. And we will have them every month for almost the rest of our lives.

What does it really mean, $200 a month? Try thinking of it this way. A typical car payment is $200 to $300 a month. If our salary is in the $30,000 range, that's about how much extra money most of us can afford to spend after we finish paying our other bills, such as housing, and I don't mean $200 worth of credit card bills every month.

If you buy the car and put off the loan, the loan gets bigger. If you pay the loan and don't buy the car, you are riding bus, or continue asking your parents for money. None of these options is a real solution. Also we are not talking about a real life-threatening problem. But in a real life, it is a pain to deal with. It's an everyday presence in your life, and even if it's over in ten years, because then years is a very long time. If you are a high school senior now, ten years you were in the second grade. It is shocking.

Here is the truth about paying for your education with student loans. It is not easy. It is a big deal. If you borrowed more than about $30,000, you will probably still be writing those checks when you are the age your parents are now. So before you sign those dotted lines, make sure that you know what you are getting into, and make sure you are getting a deal you want.

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