Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger. On today's episode, we are talking about borrowing for college.

Fundamentally, structurally speaking, the system is in fact broken and so the question then becomes

okay well what do you do about it I think there are a few different constituents that

really matter here one remains the federal government one is the private sector, and then the borrower themselves.

Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. We are presented by Marcus by Goldman Sachs.

Well, you know, it is coming up to a big deadline. The deadline

when families have to determine which college and more importantly, which

college's financial aid package is best for them. We've got two

fantastic guests. We've got David Klein and Kelly Peeler from Common Bond and they are going to help us navigate a treacherous

landscape where it's very difficult to determine what's a grant, what's a loan, what's subsidized, what's not, how much am I paying?

This is such an important topic for both the young folks who are listening, but also

their parents and grandparents.

So here is our deep dive into student loans

with Kelly Peeler and David Klein.

You're listening to Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger.

Kelly Peeler back on the show.

Very exciting.

But now you've got a new title and you've got some big news for us, but you are here to talk about the college loan

financing prospect for all these families who are facing that is it a May 1st deadline essentially?

For most colleges yes so April 1st was was when kind of like yeah oh my goodness I got into

all my dream colleges that I wanted to and a lot of colleges because they want you to enroll will set

deadlines pretty early so they kind of only give you like around a month

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