Sallie Mae Reviews

I took out a SM loan to go abroad for a Master's Degree in 2017-2018. Due to severe medical reasons, I was unable to work for 12 months after graduating. My loan is now (understandably) in default, however, my frustration stems from the fact that SM is completely unwilling to work with me. I cannot afford their "lump sum" payment option to lower my monthly payments to zero percent interest. I don't comprehend how these lower payments is an option after paying a HUGE amount, yet I cannot get them to agree to me paying more per month without the thousands required in the lump sum. They are acting as though their hands are tied and that there is no other possibility for me. Therefore, despite trying to get something worked out now that I have a job, they are refusing to help me at all.

Auto debit will stop paying after a few months without notice to you and incur late fees. If you don't get a fixed interest loan, expect your interest to skyrocket. I went from 6% to 11.75% in 4 years. If you make a payment, expect harassing phone calls to yourself, your employer and your cosigner within 2-3 days. A Sallie Mae rep processed a payment of mine incorrectly resulting in a late fee and literally dozens of harassing phone calls before I could figure out what the issue was and resolve it with the incompetent customer service. They do not offer income-based repayment. They only offer forbearance which compounds interest and makes you pay out more in the end. This is what I get for blindly following my parents' advice with loans and not knowing what I was doing as an 18 year old fresh out of college. Don't make the same mistakes as me.

This company is awful. Good luck getting answers from their customer service reps. They give you the runaround and then rudely ask if they can help you with anything else... You didn’t even help me yet! They charge ridiculous interest rates and make it impossible to refinance. They will kill your livelihood.

Advice for those in the early stages of getting Sallie Mae: I took 2 loans with them to pay college. One being 6100 with a 11% interest rate and other $6500 with a 10% interest rate. So $12,600 total.. Unlike most people in this forum, I chose to pay interest while still in school. Most people wait for it to accumulate and pay both interest and principal after graduation. They usually get a high monthly fee (I've heard 700-900+) For 4 years in school, I paid $107/month for both loans which is $5,136 total until graduation. I still owe the principal, $12,600.

Simply don't sign a deal with the devil. When you sign, everything looks bright and cherry as you're working on the education of your dreams. You may pay nothing at all or something little while you're in school but it doesn't matter because all is well and you're having a great experience. Then you graduate...and receive a 6 months grace period to find yourself a decent paying job. If you're blessed, you find one but you're living paycheck to paycheck especially after those 6 month. Minimum payment may be $900 a month (like mine especially if you were a stupid high school kid like me thinking you have to go out of state and one of the "better schools". Which is a lie from hell, they're all the same).

My son completed an application for his Junior and Senior year of college. When completing the application it was asked the amount we would be borrowing over the next 2 years and my son was approved for that amount. The University received 2 disbursements for fall and Spring Junior Semesters. When we were ready to make the next disbursement for his Fall Senior year we were told that since the University did not disburse the amount after Spring Junior year the loan was closed.

They rejected my $50 forbearance good faith payment (on two different cards) after a rep incorrectly entered the zip code associated with my card into their system a week before. Today, they denied my request for forbearance because the payment was rejected and told me my balance of $350 was due immediately. I reminded them that the error was on their end and insisted I wouldn’t be able to make the payment this month or next month due to some unexpected emergencies. Rep speaks to his supervisor, comes back and tells me they can give me forbearance for this month but next month my account balance will be $350. Forty minutes, two reps, and one supervisor later, my good faith payment was processed. All of that for an error one of your employees made. Amazing.

My family and I found out that we would not have enough to pay for my college tuition so we were referred to Sallie Mae. Since then, it has been the worst decision of my life. After graduation I was expected to pay $1,000 a month which has now risen to $1,700 a MONTH due to interest. I work in an entry-level position in Marketing and my monthly payments are absolutely ridiculous. I have tried to contact Sallie Mae to see if they can lower my payments, but every time I call I am greeted with a nasty Sallie Mae representative or there is nothing they can do. They do not care about anyone except for the money that they make off of people who cannot pay their student loans right away. Sallie Mae is a terrible company and the student debt crisis needs to be addressed. Colleges are more of a big business rather than an educational system and thrive off of families who cannot pay their student loans.

I deposited money into this bank a couple months ago. They froze the account due to "suspicion of fraud". These criminals/fraudsters stole my money and they are the ones accusing me of being a fraudster. Ironic to say the least! To this date I have not been able to recover the money that is in my account(s). I would not recommend this bank to my worst enemy.

Hello, I was tricked into a parent plus loan with SM. After my daughter finished school the loan was immediately due. My daughter did not begin payments and rather than try to get her to pay so that she could consolidate this loan along with her others they decided to just come after me for the payments. I have been trying to let my daughter assume the debt but SM will not now let her assume the debt which is hurting my credit. This from a company that was bailed out by Obama in 2008! They should be punished for mishandling funds NOT helped, they never help me try to reconcile the loan. I would like to just settle the loan but they want the entire loan amount. They did not have to pay their entire loan amount from this government that used our money to bail them out.

All my loans are paid in full but my children are still paying. The student loan and college tuition situation is a criminal crisis. Naive students and parents are tricked into loans that will take years to pay for an “education” that is more socialist Marxist brain washing than a legitimate learning experience that will lead to a fulfilling and sustaining career. There should be more controls on the use of loan money. It shouldn’t be used for frivolous reasons. There should be counseling on the consequences of borrowing and the responsibility of borrowing. Colleges are getting wealthy and spending tons of money on frivolous research and activities while soaking students for huge tuitions for a product they promise and do not deliver.

I received a denial letter from Sallie Mae for a student loan I never applied for. The option of Parent Loans were on my college profile so I reviewed the info but I didn't apply for them. No money was exchanged but this will affect my credit score which is already low enough. Also I am clearly not the parent.

Dissatisfied would be the understatement of the century to describe my experience with these monsters! My grace period ended on April 24, so my first payments were due on that date. For now, I am working a job that only pays $10.50 an hour and the amount I am expected to pay back every month is way too high for me to afford.

We were directed to Sallie Mae by my Granddaughter's University when we, at the last moment, found out she was short for tuition. As we needed to fund in 3 days we agreed co-sign on the worst interest loan we had ever been offered: 11%. It was miserable from that point on. We were given the incorrect payment address twice, the posting always ended up late by the time it reached the correct department. Their explanation: they were being divided and administered by different companies. I would get calls from outside the country because we were "late" - no, we were not. Finally was able to speak with someone in Salt Lake who told us he would be our contact and then, of course, he was soon no longer there. Once we signed up for auto withdrawal, it calmed down.... until my granddaughter graduated, she paid just fine until she moved out of state, could not find a job.

It ONLY took 12 years to pay-off the undergrad loan. Med school was financed thru Parents and Will probably get paid off in less time. My only issue will be if Politicians pass laws to forgive debts. What about everyone who has been paying monthly debt for over a decade? There is no discussion about repaying those who have diligently paid down debt. Will any Student Loans be reimburse (probably not).

I called Sallie Mae a few months ago after they doubled my loan payment unexpectedly. I told them they can either change it back to what it was or expect it to default. I don’t care about my credit and have no desire to own a home anytime soon so it’s no sweat off my back. Of course they were unwilling to work with me except for putting it in forbearance, so they can add the grossly accumulated interest onto the principal. So I stopped paying. I didn’t have a co-signer so the only person that hurts is myself.

I co-signed a loan for my daughter's undergraduate tuition and expenses. The interest rate continued to rise. Although we paid early and twice or three times the minimum each month, Sallie Mae would not work with us to lower or refinance the loan. Even though we were told this would be an option down the road. When calling, their customer service representatives were not helpful and sometimes rude. I would not recommend Sallie Mae.

WARNING-I worked in fraud. It seems to me from the questions I was asked today that some of their reps are trying to get information to sell. What this company asked me for today is NOT NORMAL. I tried to open a two year CD here for a small amount. First time their website crashed during the verification. Second time it went through after asking me to verify everything under the sun including my ex sister in law's name who hasn’t been married to my brother in 15 plus years. Next day I get an email asking me to verify more. I call and verify the account, get transferred to fraud. Fraud says there is a problem with my address. I verify it as well as another property we owned in the 15 years I continually owned the other. They leave me on hold forever. I tell them they can verify with the tax assessor. That’s not proof they say. Then they start asking the weirdest garbage. Who my mobile carrier is and whose name my phone account is under? My pets' names.

I had a horrible experience with Sallie Mae. They contacted me repeatedly to consolidate my credit card debt. After spending lots of time giving them all the information they wanted and lots of calls from them telling me that I would definitely get a loan, I logged on to check on my loan and the results said I had no application on file. They just erased everything because the "proprietary method" they used said that my income wasn't enough. When I called to ask about it, the representative said that the person with whom I had been working was in and he would connect me. He then proceeded to put me on hold 6 times while he asked this person about my loan (he clearly was too cowardly to tell me that he had turned me down after assuring me that my loan would be approved) and finally I just gave up and said I would go through my credit union. Awful, awful customer service. Just a ghastly experience.

I am so glad I'm not the only one that has had a horrible experience with Sallie Mae. I thought I was helping my two sons with alternative loans to go to college but this company has made life after college difficult for my sons to start life. My sons have bachelor degrees and pay close to $700 dollars a month to Sallie Mae. The most they owe is 40,000. The interest my husband and I paid on these loans during the four yrs of college did not help our sons' interest as it was explained to us it would. FALSE ADVERTISEMENT!!!

This was quite some time ago, but I did have a loan with them and it is was simple and easy to take care of. Was transferred a few times, but nothing changed. The other lenders were just as pleasant. Glad when it was paid off!!

I had a savings account with Sallie Mae. Three weeks ago I was informed, with no advanced warning, that my account had been closed due to (what they said was) "suspicious activity." They refuse to tell me what this suspicious activity was supposed to be, they refuse to tell me when I will get my money back or how much of it I will get back -- they won't tell me anything. Again, this was three weeks ago.

I have multiple accounts with passwords and never have issues. With Sallie Mae, however, after being locked out of my account continuously, even when using saved passwords, written-down-so-I-don’t-forget passwords, etc, I STILL get locked out. When you call, don’t expect any help either. You will get hung up on before you navigate the automated system. Literally the worst bank ever. I have emailed to request someone please call me instead, hoping I can talk to someone long enough to close my account.

This is one of the worst student loan program ever. I would never recommend this program to anyone. They make it so hard for students to make the payments that they wants from student that just got out of college. Not a good one. : (

High Yield Savings Account/Unacceptable Business Practices. While I have not lost any money there are several reasons to not choose Sallie Mae's savings accounts based on my experience: 1) If you transfer $5K or more, they will hold ALL of the deposit for more than 10 days for no apparent reason other than I presume to play the float against us. 2) You cannot change or delete a transfer of funds once it is submitted unless you call in. 3) Calling in is a joke, they automatically hang up on you after telling you they are very busy at the time.

I signed up for two fixed rate graduate student loans, and one is just fine. The other, and larger, loan magically turned itself into a variable rate loan. Despite presentation of origination documents showing 'fixed rate', Sallie Mae keeps coming back with a processing sheet saying they processed it as a variable rate loan. Obviously, that is not what I signed up for. One would think this would be an easy fix, but Sallie Mae refuses to fix the problem. They have since raised the interest rate by a factor of 8 from the changes in the 'liber rate' they site as the need for the increases. These guys are straight up crooks. They learned absolutely nothing from the financial crisis or from Wells Fargo.

I took out two student loans to finish nursing school in 2014 and 2015. My brother was kind enough to co-sign those loans. Since graduating they have raised the interest rates with zero notification and pulled my co-signer's credit report 4 times for some unknown reason. I have not ever been more than 5 days late on a payment and had automatic debit as well. This month for some reason my automatic payment wasn't taken and I didn't know it until they started calling and harassing my father who is not my co-signer, my co-signer, and then pulled mine and my co-signers credit report.

Well, Sallie Mae is at it again. I’m on SSDI. Full disabiltiy. I quit school because of the disabilities. I told Sallie Mae this. After almost 2 years, they have now sent a collection agency after me. I’m not afraid of them. I’ve had sound advice from an attorney and they cannot touch or garnish my SSDI or my husband’s retirement. In Tennessee, you can exempt up to $10,000 in personal property from being seized. We own no real property. They better leave us alone.

I unfortunately needed to take out loans in order to complete my college schooling. The aftermath of this has entirely made me regret going to college and has essentially ruined my adult life. Sallie Mae no longer consolidates their loans, which they don't tell you beforehand, and they are completely unwilling to help -- despite the fact that someone who just graduated college may not be in a place to pay their insane monthly payments. Each month, they currently take over half of my monthly paycheck.

This loan is the worst. They do not care about your problems when you're going through it. I wouldn't recommend this loan to anyone at all. This loan is the death of everyone, interest is high and when you thought you're half way done you're back from step one. PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH AHEAD OF TIME. DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THEM. I missed two months of payment and they send it to the credit report department, lowered my credit score down 100 points. Insane is not the word.

Sallie Mae is THE most fraudulent and misleading financial institution I have ever encountered! I took out a FIXED rate loan for my MBA 5 years ago and after inquiring over 20 times over past few years I ONLY learned today that they have been secretly adding "daily accrued interest" to my loan. The rep made clear I already signed off on this and it is a fait accompli however I have been trying to figure out why I kept paying my $35k loan each month and yet the outstanding balance was barely reducing!

I came to this page in frustration, first of all 10 minutes before 9 pm and you guys close shop early? Coming up on MLK day, payments will be delayed, also one cannot select auto enroll with credit card, anytime you want to pay with credit to build your credit, you have to call in. The reps are Chinese bum socks, talk you in circles and can’t answer basic question, explain things unpropitiously, careless people. In all honesty I blame my father for not doing more research on this company, ** you dad! Sallie Mae destroyed my credit and sent me into collection, college was not worth the frustration... Do not sign with this lender! This is only the beginning, by the way hard as crap to refi too, they’ll get you for everything you got!

Because of my university revoking my financial aid my second year of school, I had to take out around 40k from Sallie Mae. Fast forward to 6 months after graduation, they are requesting around 500 dollars a month in repayments. Despite working two jobs, one being seasonal, and barely getting by, there is absolutely no chance they will lower the payments. Based off of my cosigner's (Household, not individual) income, they see no reason the payments shouldn't be made. However; I make around 27k a year, pay rent, a car loan, utilities, etc. and there is no option for me to lower the burden.

I opened a money market account with Sallie Mae Bank. I had a large amount in the way of checks to deposit and therefore used a prepaid debit card to make a test deposit first (good thing I did!). The nationally known debit card company backs and coordinates deposits via an underlying checking account. Again with a nationally known financial institution. For some reason the test deposit was returned - apparently somewhere along the way the card was treated as a credit vs a debit card and many banks don't allow you to use credit to fund a savings account. No problem. At least the account was active and I was going to follow up with endorsing checks over and depositing them to my Sallie Mae account.

There's a reason their reputation is so low. I've called multiple times trying to get help, usually the call lasts 45 mins-1 hour every single time and nothing good comes out of it. You get transferred constantly and no one knows how to do anything. We even got hung up on one time when we were told everything would be okay. They act clueless. They provide zero help but are quick to harass and call you, your family, and anyone that may have relation to you and try and get info out of them.

My bank sent out a check to pay off 3 loans totally over 30k. They applied the check to a 4k loan and never called me. I had a 29,000 balance on a 4k loan and they applied the money to the WRONG loan and let alone a loan that who would put a 30 plus payment on a 4k loan? I think they did me a disservice and never contacted me but continued to accrue interest on my account and post late payments. Once again this just proves that Sallie Mae is in for the money.

I opted for a loan to cover additional graduate school loans. Normally, not a big deal. On my last payment, I submitted the payment and discovered that the payment, a draft from my bank account, could not be processed due to a 'holiday'. It was taken ONE DAY LATE as a result. Sallie Mae responded by jacking up my interest rate over a full percentage point and had put me, apparently, into a permanent delinquent status... My next payment is due two weeks from now but is still apparently delinquent in advance? No one seems to be able to explain much of anything. Fortunately, I can refinance this loan at 3 percent less. Why anyone would expose themselves to this kind of exploitation is silly.

When I took loans out through Sallie Mae, I was under the impression I could consolidate them so I would just be paying on one bill with one interest rate. NOPE. Found out they do not do that which I think it will but whatever. So I refinanced through another company. The company sent the money out 20 days ago. Sallie Mae still claims they never received it. I called a couple different times and they keep telling me not to worry about the payment. That I have a grace period after the due date and the money would process by then. Well. Weeks are going by and nothing processed. And I am being penalized when they told me I would not be. They supposedly made notes about my situation yet it seems nothing is being done. What happened to the money that was supposed to pay it off? Did they lose it? Are they sitting on it? Thinking I should get an attorney involved so guess it’s a good thing I have relatives who are attorneys.

Sallie Mae has put me in a terrible situation today, I am in between jobs and start next week. So I am low on money until my first paycheck. When I paid 153 dollars for my student loan on November 2nd, and additional 153 was taken out as an automatic deposit on November 3rd even though I had already paid. This put me negative in my bank account and cost me a 30 dollar overdraft fee. I called a representative immediately to sort out the issue and was insured the money would be returned to me within 3 to 5 business days.

My experience with Sallie Mae began when I needed a loan for school. Back in the day Sallie Mae and Navient had a partnership unlike now being two separate companies. I applied for multiple loans, and when the two companies split I ended up having more loans with Navient thankfully. I was responsible for 2 loans with Sallie Mae where my mother was a co-signer on one with me. Our payments were over $600 monthly and I found out that they had adversely impacted my credit when I noticed my credit went down 50-60 points! I looked into the matter further. Was told that Sallie Mae reported my credit and this happened multiple times.

I don't know anything about getting a student loan and stupidly did not do my homework. As a consequence, I wrongly chose Sallie Mae. They have VERY high interest rates and will absolutely NOT work with you to lower your payment, refinance the loan, lengthen the term, ANYTHING! I got three loans with a payment of $575 a month. Forbearance is a joke, why wouldn't they want you to take a forbearance? They keep getting their interest, don't they? They call multiple time a day if you are late. Many time the reps are rude and in any case not authorized to do SQUAT for you! DO NOT TAKE OUT A LOAN WITH THIS COMPANY! You will regret it every day!

Sallie Mae preys on families. They are greedy, don’t offer ANY sort of repayment options. At 18 my parents told me to sign the papers that if I didn’t I couldn’t go to college. So I signed them not knowing exactly what I was getting in to. Fast forward after two years of college I dropped out. Some of my loans were coming in and I was paying them. After 3 months I get a call from Sallie Mae telling me that I owed over $900 for past due payments and there will be another payments coming in 7 days totaling over $1200.

Whatever you do don’t click the option for pay while in school. The minute you miss a payment they’re on you like flies on poop. I opted to do the automatic payment which honestly does nothing. They say it lowers your interest rate by a small percent but I haven’t seen it, if anything my interest rate went up. I pay the minimum amount and I somehow owe more. I can’t even pay off the interest at this rate. You’re better off selling a kidney. At least the pain would be quick. I wouldn’t wish this upon my worst enemy. Please do yourself and others a favor and choose to conduct business elsewhere. Unfortunately, it’s too late for me, but you can save yourselves from this heartless, greedy corporation.

Whatever you do, don’t click the option for pay while in school. The second you miss a payment they are on you like flies on **. I opted to do automatic payment which does absolutely nothing. I pay the minimum and I somehow owe more. I can’t even pay off the interest at this rate. You’re honestly better off selling a kidney. At least that pain is quick. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. Please do the yourself and others a favor and not choose to do business with this company. Maybe someday, someone will listen and there will be a change with this company. Unfortunately, it’s too late me, but you can save yourselves from the horror of owning money to a greedy, heartless mess of a corporation.

My daughter took out a loan which my 80 year old mother cosigned for. While applying for the loan my daughter accidentally chose the wrong option, she chose the one to pay the interest on the loan while in school. She should have chosen the one not to pay until you graduate. My mother and daughter are getting harassed by this company 20 plus calls a day. I called Sallie Mae and told them what happened. They said they could not change the option. I explained that my daughter is not working, my 80 year old mother is living on a very fixed income and I am working two jobs just to keep a roof over our heads since my daughters father passed away in 2014. They said they could not change the option and we had to pay. I don't know what to do because none of us can afford to pay it right now. Now they are threatening my daughter saying they are going to take the money back. I'm so worried I don't know what to do!!!

This experience has been the worst I ever had to deal with and I have a terminal illness, mind you. This company is extremely incompetent and each month for almost 4 years, I have NEVER gotten an answer that matched what was said the prior month EVERRR! I'm on a scheduled payment plan and they can't take money properly! I have to still call every month because my payment “declined.” Of course, it will decline if your incompetent ** type in the cc info wrong then blame the bank. Instead of fixing it, they call to tell me I’m 120 days late and being reported to the credit bureau. I called each month to rectify each matter! Yet, they tell me, “Oh we never went back to get the money out after you called us back to take it." Sooo my credit is shot to hell because SALLIE MAE IS THE MOST INCOMPETENT COMPANY I HAVE EVVVEEERRR DEALT WITH!

Only giving it one star because you have to choose one. I took out 3 different loans with Sallie Mae, not knowing the consequences of dealing with this company. They were charging me $650 a month when I made 30k a year, refusing to work with me until my 96 y.o. cosigner, who made even less, died. Recently, they have taken out my payments 4 days before they're actually due, when I haven't gotten paid yet. I have called several times, and it was after the third time that they finally changed the due date that I requested. However, I was charged over $270 in 3 months of overdraft fees.

SM requested security documents to verify opening the savings account. Two weeks later I had to call to ensure my personal security documents had been received. I called to inquire status. No calls or emails from SM about account. From day one cannot get transfers from external accounts to my accounts after linking them to SM account. I called and logged a complaint. Nothing further happened obviously. Calling wait times are extremely long and sometimes no one picks up so I hung up. So my call list extremely important? Joke. Horrible experience. Would not recommend SM.

I wish I never went back to school. These people call 2-3 times a day, (even when you pay them), and have been for the past year. Yesterday, they called my husband at his government job, and left a detailed message with a random person who answered the phone. Again... they left my personal information with a random person who answered the phone. I am done with these people. I have taken a step forward for an attorney, especially since they confirmed breach of my private information.

Cosigners BEWARE! Once you're locked in with someone's acct, You're screwed. It's not right for a cosigner to be imprisoned with the primary acct holder, even when the primary user has proof of employment and ability to pay.

This servicer is plain out thieving my money any chance they get. In 2008, I borrowed $8,000 for college and this has been by far the ABSOLUTE worst mistake of my college career. Not only did they add $3,500 on unpaid interest by the time I graduated college in 2012 but their interest rate is absurd. So far since 2012, I’ve made a total payment of $8,029.10 and my account is still at 7,942.54.

Do NOT ever get involved with them. When you try to pay off the account, they hold the checks forever and tell you they don't have the checks. So, they are just trying to get more interest out of you by doing that. I had to stop payment on a check to them because they kept telling me they didn't have it. The day I stopped payment on it, they suddenly said they had it. So then I send them another check and they still have not credited it to the account and they have had the check for three weeks!!! You have to be kidding me. Won't even let you talk to anybody in "processing" to see if they have the check. They say they're no telephones in that department. What a joke this company is.

I have 5 loans through this company totaling over $32,000. I began repayment in Feb. 2017 with a minimum payment of $520/month. I spoke to customer service about how to get my payments lowered because I couldn't afford that high of a payment per month and they told me my only option was to not pay my loans, go into forbearance, get contacted by collections and then they would work with me on payments. Are you kidding??? I have excellent credit, and this is the best they could do for me? Not to mention that every time I was able to put just a few extra dollars to one of my loans, my interest rates would go up. This is a money hungry company who has no interest in working with account holders. I now have a job that can support the $500/month payment and am putting extra money towards them every month to try and get rid of them so they don't get more money from me than needed. Don't ever get loans through this company!!!

Non responsive institution. Their systems do not work with Quicken or Mint. They will not provide paper statements by US mail unless you request said once a month. They clearly don't want customer so please help them achieve their objective.

I co-signed for my daughter on some loans. Now that she is graduated, they stalk us on the regular if she is late. Which she is due to the amount she is expected to pay back. How is she ever to get a good start with so much in debt. With the high interest the debt seems to never move. It really is sad to know this after the fact. Now it seems we're stuck. This company is the most pushy / harassing company, I've ever seen. DO NOT FINANCE / LOAN FROM SALLIE MAE.

PRIVATE SALLIE MAE STUDENT LOAN. This letter is in regards to a Private Student Loan with a Cosigner. Loan Amount - $30,000. Paid $500/month for over 6 months and the loan went up to $33,000. In the past 3 months has gone from 33,000 - 35,000. An absolute burden that was wrongfully forced on us. These statements have been clearly and verbally stated several times to each loan servicer. Major Immediate Grievance: Severe and total harassment of cosigner to the point where cosigner suffered a stroke on Jan 26th due to the stress from Sallie Mae's harassment and FIDM's fraud in signing and taking this loan. (Document included) She is suffering from major illness from this loan and the Loan Servicers continue to harass and call at work, and have called repeatedly and continuously. They have called at times when they knew they should not call (late hours or during a doctor’s appointment).

This school loan was only 9862.00 over a year ago. I have paid on this loan more than they ask for a month $9112.00. Horrible Company to deal with. They are pocketing money somewhere! Don't get them!!! They also raised the interest on me last month because it was not paid off.

Sallie Mae is a horrible company. They are in it for the money. Do not waste your time getting a loan here. Since they are a private loan company, they can do whatever they want. They only offer 2 loan repayment options which are forbearance, and automatic debit. None of these are options to me. Save your time and your money and go with a different loan company. The woman in customer service basically just told me if I miss a payment it will go to collections and they will have different repayment options for me. Who tells a valued customer to let their account go into collections to find a better repayment plan? HORRIBLE COMPANY.

My original loan was for $10000. Last year I paid over $3000 towards my private student loan with Sallie Mae. I still owe more than $9,800. I can't even imagine what it must be like to owe this terrible company more than that. I'm drowning with this loan. They are also unwilling to do more than offer a forbearance that you cannot agree to unless you pay a fee. How are they legally allowed to operate this way in this country? They prey on the lower class, and there is a special place in hell for anyone that even thinks about working here. They even have "noncompete" agreements set up with certain lenders so you cannot consolidate or refinance a loan with them if you're trying to refinance a loan from Sallie Mae. Never under any circumstances take out a loan with them. You'll regret it for the entire life of the loan. If Satan exists, he's running Sallie Mae.

I had absolutely no problem setting up my loans and getting my money to my school. I even paid off a major portion while in school and that transition went very well. As soon as I graduated the level of service disappeared. Let's go in chronological order. I graduated in June of 2017. September: After my 6 month grace period ended I called and talked to the agents about the reduced payments so that I could take over from my parents. They told me my loans would be deferred one more month and the agreed upon amount was about half of what was initially expected. $300 was taken out of my parents account despite being under the impression that all my loans were being deferred for one more month.

My son applied for a loan, using my wife as the cosigner. We tried to adjust the loan amount, but when we got to the acceptance documents, the loan amount was incorrect. Furthermore, the interest rate was listed differently between what my wife was looking at and what my son was looking at. We called two times to get this changed; each time we were promised that it would be correct. When I finally called to ask THEM to change THEIR SYSTEM RECORDS, they said that they couldn't do it unless I got my wife and son on the phone to verify their identity. Unbelievable. I would highly recommend going anywhere else for your student loan needs.

A few years ago, I cosigned for my daughter on a Sallie Mae loan. Now, they call me (robo and live) several times a day (seventy two times in the last thirty two days!) asking for payment, when I've told them repeatedly that my daughter would take care of it as soon as she could. They've also advised me that the calls would continue thirty days after payment is made.

My son ended up having to choose a loan quickly, this was because the University that he wanted to attend waited until the last minute to finalize his acceptance letter. He and my Mom (who has the best credit score of anyone that I know) applied for the loan together. My son did receive the loan, and because of time constraints he accepted it. When we received the finalized paperwork my mom and I were shocked at the horrendous interest amount, the payments and the fact that he would end up paying 3X. Yes, that's right, three times the amount of the original loan amount back.

They constantly spam my phone with robo calls every 20 minutes, but put me on hold for hours at a time when I try to call them. They are harassing my relatives because they say they “can’t get ahold of me.” They do not offer income based repayment and use scare tactics to get what they want. They will sell your loans to other companies without telling you first and do not offer loan consolidation.

I have been diligent in paying on time for loans to educate two of my children, for ten years! I have asked to please not require me to make my monthly payments on the same or very close dates each month. I have also asked for interest rate help, these rates are 6.75% and 8.75%. I was told by Sallie Mae ten years ago the rates need to be high to compensate for rising interest rates. The Prime rate has only gone down! On just one loan I have paid 55,000 in interest while only 12,000 in principal. Sallie Mae refuses to even discuss interest rate moderation. This is difficult as I have not had a w2 for ten years and the amount taken by Sallie Mae is almost the entire amount of my Social Security ck of 1600.00$$. Sallie Mae makes this withdraw against my bank account wi ttg his days of receiving it each month! These are just some of the justifications I have for being dissatisfied with Sallie Mae.

I am a lot of student loans with this company and have had nothing but problems since the beginning. My most recent problem is not having access to my account for almost 2 weeks now and every time I call (which has been every 2 days) they said they will pass the information along. Today I was finally told that each time I call it resets the "3-5 business day" rule for fixing a problem. What kind of crap is that? And their interest policy is messed up. If you make any additional payments they will add on the interested from your last paying till this one onto the extra payment and then at the end of the month they add more interest from previous payment. It is all very sketchy and I would not recommend them to anyone. STAY AWAY!

After I graduated my student loans were paid off in full. Seven years after my loans had been paid I got 2 late payments on my credit report. When I called Sallie Mae they told me I had made a seven year payment and now I owed interest. I never received one statement in the mail in seven years or had been told about any interest so my credit score dropped. Sallie Mae said they do not remove credit remarks for any loans.

Not for nothing but Sallie Mae was doing the same thing to its borrowers long before the split. I am a past borrower and was never told about other options until I consolidated in 2012 with a different company, right around the same time the government put pressure on providers to offer an array payment options. These options were already in place prior to 2012 but services were reluctant to mention due to the fact they made millions. And the DEPARTMENT of ED STOOD BY and DID NOTHING!!! Hasn't anyone asked if NAVIENT WASN'T CREATED just to fail??? Afterall its relinquishes Sallie Mae of any guilt. If Navient fails, they absorb all of Sallie Mae's mistakes.

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I have been misguided and given false information about my accounts for 2 years now. The first time I had a problem it was when I tried to get in a repayment program, they reassured me that all of my loans were fine and they started automatically taking money out of my account. 2 months later, I get a letter in the mail saying that a loan of mine was delinquent. They had reported it to my credit and my score dropped 200 points within that year. I called to see what I could do to fix the problem and they said I had to put a down payment of 2,000 which I didn't have.

I recently applied for a loan to cover the rest of my tuition. My school sent me the link to the loan, and informed me that this would be a loan I wouldn't have to pay back until after I graduated. The person I talked to over the phone informed me that I had to choose this option when filling out the application, so I'm not sure if I overlooked where I had to choose this, or I just wasn't paying attention because I thought that I was just automatically filling out the application for that certain loan. However, because of this one detail the woman that I was speaking with was accusing me of lying about not knowing I had to start paying the loan back before I finished college. She was very rude and continually accused me of lying.

My daughter has a student loan with Sallie Mae and has to pay $900.00 a month, which she cannot afford, and just like everyone else is complaining about, they will not work with her. She has not gotten her degree yet and is applying to schools to go back, Unfortunately, my other daughter was kind enough to co-sign for her, so not paying is not an option that she has right now. Because if my daughter did not co-sign for her sister, I would tell Sallie Mae to go ** themselves and tell her not to even pay them. Even though it would ruin her credit right now, once she is done with her degree, she could start paying them back. She is still young and could clear up her credit in time. She does have a full-time job, but does not make enough money to pay this ridiculous amount each month. They could care less if she has nothing left out of her paycheck to live on or pay any other bills.

Sallie Mae is the greediest, most inhuman and unfair company ever. For years they literary have tortured my son with threats, letters and unfounded accusations. They ask from him to be responsible as a co-signer of a student loan without any evidence and proof. He never signed or agreed to be a co-signer, his information was used without his consent. They continue torturing mentally a disabled person – he is ill and this pressure could be fatal for him. If something happen to my son, I will personally, hold Sallie Mae responsible for deliberately deteriorating his health and bring him to fatal despair. I will not stop using all legal means until I see all of them in prison – where they belong. Sallie May doesn’t care how many lives will destroy – they are interested in money only no matter what it would cost. Shame on all of the people working there!

I will NEVER use or recommend Sallie Mae to anyone. Customer service is horrible, supervisors lie and say they will call you back but then they don't... I have been waiting 3 WEEKS for them to change my enrollment date... I have spoke with so many representatives from so many locations. Always have to repeat your story every time multiple times. The representatives accused me of pulling the certification time line out of thin air... When I found the information on their FAQ page... Representatives not knowledgeable at all. The supervisor is just as bad... Every time I asked about the enrollment change they said they said I have to wait 3 to 5 day for the student assist to respond. Like I said I am still waiting and have been waiting 3 weeks... I will not take the loan anymore cuz I don't have much time left to keep waiting. Can NEVER find an available manager or supervisor. Absolute worse experience. Please I really hope you consider another lender... DO NOT USE SALLIE MAE!!! THEY SUCK AND CUSTOMER SERVICE IS HORRIBLE!!!

This company is the worst loan company I have ever seen. Here are a few of the things I HATE about them: 1- High variable interest rates only. I have excellent credit and co-signed on this loan for kid. They treat you like you're stupid when you challenge how you could be paying 11% when the rest of the world is paying 6% - there is no negotiation. You can POUND sand if you don't like it. The interest calculations changes with the wind (I think they just make it up) and every day you watch yourself go further in debt. 2- If you overpay for the month to try and tackle principal, they just deduct it from next month's payment. This way it get's applied to interest only instead of principal. Totally nasty trick and they claim there are no prepayment penalties. They just keep your debt as high as possible.

Sallie Mae has the worst loan department that I have ever seen in my life. The supervisors are very disrespectful and have no concern about your personal situation - they just want you to pay what they assume you owe. I actually had to hang up on a manager yesterday (7/7/2017) after trying for months to resolve an issue that he did not want to hear about. I had a forbearance that was not processed properly but he tried to say it was my fault and why did I want to get a forbearance in the first place. He tried to say that the forbearance was not even started by me. I tried to get him to go back and listen to the recordings and take the time to review my file since Nov 2016 but he tried to tell me that it was all my fault that we are at this point and my payment is at the credit collections department. Please don't use this loan company. Stay far away. :(

Do not do business with Sallie Mae. They offer no reasonable payment options. My daughter got student loans from Sallie Mae and the payments are way too high for her to afford on her own and they are not willing to offer any payment options at all. Horrible customer service terrible experience.

I had to take out a private loan my last year of law school due to some administrative errors; the school wouldn't let me attend classes until it was resolved. As I was stretched pretty thin by then my then spouse co-signed the loan. I began making the $279/month payments immediately, never missing a payment nor making a payment late. Unfortunately, shortly after graduating and before I could even pass the bar exam, I was stricken with an incurable disease that rendered me unable to even sit upright more than an hour or two a day. I was immediately fired from my job and of course, lost my health insurance too. My husband bailed, leaving all the bills and the house he'd refinanced in MY name using a forged power of attorney without my knowledge.

The day my son got loan I was not contacted single time. The loan was funded to him. He is out of job. As parents we tried to make payment. Was just tossed around making excuses of privacy issues. Finally couldn't get any way to make that payment. Provided son with credit card. He can't make payment. Card is not under his name. Parents tried to make payment. Can't do that. Loan is not under their name. Even though they put my wife as cosigner never called her once. Playing the nasty game kid against parents and parents against kid.

I've been paying on time for 2 years and yet the rates go up every few months because I'm on a variable rate. At 1 point, it went up 6-10 dollars in a month or two. I had bounced a bill one time because it had pulled the amount twice (and for the amount of 652, that's 1300 bucks). They did by accident and of course, months have passed before anything was ever done. When confronted as to when I will receive my refund, the answer I get was that I can put in the request for a refund but it doesn't mean that it will get approved. Now that I'm jumping into a debt relief program, they called my mom, my sister and the people close to me to demand payments. They are like vultures, calling in under different pseudo names and private numbers to hunt for their money. Don't ever get Sallie Mae's as loans, they're one of the worst servicers. You pay on time, your rates still go up. Whatever happened to savings for loans that are on autopay?!

My wife and I both cosigned on different loans for our daughter to finance her education through Sallie Mae. After making several payments we were able to acquire the funds to pay off the loans. My wife contacted Sallie Mae and made arrangements for the payment for the loans in full. The full payment was for both of the loans that my wife and I cosigned for. The check for payment on both of the loans was mailed to Sallie Mae. A couple months after the payment was made we receive notification that the loan I cosigned for was in arrears. My wife made several phone calls speaking with several different representatives and was unable to resolve the issue. One of the representatives transferred my wife's call to a supervisor. After explaining the issue to the supervisor that the loan payment was for both loans we were still unable to resolve the issue. The supervisor became very condescending during the phone call and my wife hung up the phone.

I needed a Private loan to finish the last two terms of my BS Degree. What should feel like a huge accomplishment is now causing me extreme financial heartache. Sallie Mae is not willing to work with folks to pay back their loans, they say they are and they advertise they will, but buyer beware. They are not. They ask a lot of personal questions about finances to give you options. One of the options is Forbearance, but you cannot get one unless you can prove you can make the payments after the Forbearance is completed. (Which, by the way is $50.00 every three months and a limit of a year.)

I filled out my money order sending in with my name thinking with my name it would be added to my account for that month's payment. Who writes their Social Security Number on their money order but because I did not write my Social Security number on the money order I lost the account number. Then I realized I was being charged for a late fee. So I called and said, "I have been sending thru payments". They said it was not posted to my account because of not having social on it. Then guess what before I got that information I had already mailed in my other payment. Same way with my name with a money order I got the answer too late. They agreed to credit my for the first one but I never got credit for the second one that was sent in mail.

My story is long and involved and utterly frustrating. My identical twin boys have several Sallie Mae loans, unfortunately. They are the only game in town that makes it easy to become their hostage. Bottom line, they need the money or they will not be able to finish their college educations. We recently applied for their last semester, which will be this summer, 2017. Both boys have NO credit history. They have NO credit cards or payments of any type. Their only debt is for school (and that's extraordinary). Both are in debt for the same amount of money. On paper, they are exactly alike, even their majors are the same. After they applied for their loans they were each granted an offer of an interest rate. One boy was offered 6%. The other boy was offered 9%. That's a difference of 3% which equates to hundreds of dollars over the life of the loan.

Sallie Mae preys on those with poor credit! My interest rate has increased 3 times in less than a year. They try to say it's because they belong to LIBOR. They're liars and pathetic! Get your money anywhere except from this company. They're a total RIPOFF!!!

America's future, saddled with debt, that seems eternity that will follow them. Great reward for trying to better yourself via College educations. The "scam"? Sallie Mae's predator like tactics, by helping "defer" payments until after graduation, with the guise that "We make it easy for you by allowing payments later." However, when you graduate, it may take you years to pay off the "accumulated interest" with your principal never going down. They laugh to the bank, and with interest rates that are never really favorable. Try dealing with them, do they care? Not really. Offer you any real solutions? Not really. The "shame"? That Sallie Mae's name is tied to the US Gov't, and that the US Gov't allows these predator like tactics to occur. Sinking America's future = shame on you!

I thought I would go back to school but I didn't have time so I decided to do it online. So I got a loan through Sallie Mae. I started making my payments back and they started getting higher and interest started going up and I only have social security. I made as much as I could and with my other bills I just couldn't afford it anymore. Now they call and send me letters saying they are going to take our taxes. I just wish someone would make them go through what I am going through!

As of today, I got mail from Sallie Mae stating my loans have been charged off! This takes a huge load off me! Thanks for your help!

Sallie Mae offered me help when I was pushed up against a rock and a hard place. I needed $12,400.00 fast or I would not be able to finish my last year of college. I exhausted my financial aid and my parents would not take out another loan or cosign one. Sallie Mae was the only option at the time due to my credit and being in college I had little income coming in. They were quick to help me but failed to explain exactly what I was getting into.

I cosigned for my daughter's loan in 2011 and 2012. This was before the separation of Sallie Mae and Navient. They claim to be separate companies but can tell you exactly how much you owe each one. I filed a complaint with the CFPB, and suddenly, they could get someone to phone me that supposedly could resolve the problem. Before that, I'd been bounced around from one person to the next with different answers from every one. Basically, they have set the payments for the loans way beyond my daughter's ability to pay. So, they have come after me. I had harassing phone calls multiple times every day. I told them to stop phoning my cell but they continued to do so.

I use to not believe the people that have had all the problems with SM but it caught up to me. Ridiculous interest rate. (And I have really good credit mind you.) Increased payments without notice. (Which is interesting since they have no problem sending a stupid amount and mail and emails.) Getting ahold of a real person to talk to is impossible, and when you do they have no idea about anything. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Sallie Mae is awful.

This is the absolute worst company to ever get a private student loan with. They don't even deserve one star. I have been receiving multiple calls every day and two months later they still have not handled the issue. They say a form has not been received when I confirmed twice with the account manager that the deferment letter was received. They are only after money and have no concern for students or graduates. I'm literally in tears of frustration. Please don't choose Sallie Mae.

I had student loan with CitiBank. I moved to new location and reported my new address to Citibank. At the same time my student loan was purchase by Sallie Mae. I did not receive any mails from Sallie Mae. Few months had passed and I called Sallie Mae after finding out that Sallie Mae purchase my loan. I had late payments. I tried to explain my situation but they did not care. I paid my loan fully. Then when I was trying to purchase a house the late payments were on my record. I called Sallie Mae and explained my situation and told them to take out late payments from my record. They refused and I couldn't purchase a house. Don't get loan from Sallie Mae. They DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS.

I've had quite a few less than impressive encounters with Sallie Mae student loans. However, once I started the automatic payment plan everything was fine for a few months... Then I switched banks. I changed my bank information on the site, paid my loan manually for that month, and signed up for automatic payments through the new bank. There have been multiple issues. Including starting the automatic payments and then suddenly not making them. Causing late fees and my credit to go bad. So I paid manually and then they randomly would withdraw automatically certain months. I've had to call my bank and put a hold on them twice. They've attempted to withdraw from my closed bank account even though I've deleted it from the site, and it just reappears. Now I'm attempting to make payments and it won't go through at all. I've called my bank and ensured it's not on their end. It's beyond the point of ridiculous.

I signed (and aunt cosigned) for a $10,000 loan with Sallie Mae in 2013. They informed me that I wouldn't owe them a penny until 6 months after I graduated. However, 1month (this was October, I started school in September) into school they started harassing me telling me that I owed them money. I asked them how when I just started school!? I told the agent that I had been promised by multiple Sallie Mae agents that I wouldn't owe until 6 months after I graduated (before and after I signed).

I have a student loan in Sallie Mae, and as soon as 6 months hit after I graduate from school my payment became from $45 to $495. I have not taken the nursing exam yet so I have no money to pay for that very high amount and my parents couldn't help me because they are struggling with financial too. So I called them to do a deferment at least 3 months till I pass my exam and get the job I went to school for, and so the struggle started.

I haven't really had too much of a problem with Sallie Mae since taking loans out with them in 2013. The one thing I can't stand about them is the annoying amount of phone calls when your payments are due. My loan has been in deferment since I started my master's degree, so I have not been making payments. My mom was co-signer and my statements go to my parents address so I don't always get them on time. Apparently I missed two months of payments, and within a week (Oct 25-Oct 28) they have called me 19 times!!

So I took a loan out from Sallie Mae to cover a year for college. Worst mistake of my life. I got my grandfather to co-sign the loan for me and they immediately accepted us. Well I first signed up for auto bill pay and that was mistake number one. They input all of my information wrong. Got my first late letter in the mail but that was after they bombarded my family with phone calls and letters. Manually paid the first month. I call them up again to try and resolve the issue so they can just take it out of my paycheck every month. Wrong again. They did not accept that payment method either.

I currently have student loans with Sallie Mae. I graduated in 2015 and have started paying off my large amount of loans (PS: Private schools are expensive) I have. As a recent graduate I have had difficulty finding a full time job that pays me enough to make my payments. Luckily I have wonderful parents who help me out. My complaint is the obsessive amount of phone calls I receive from Sallie Mae regarding my account and payment that is due. Over this past week, Oct. 17-20, I have been called 17 times!! Some as early as 8 a.m. and other as late at 10 p.m.! I understand I have a payment due, but calling me every other hour is not going to make me pay it any faster. I am aware of my payment when I get an email about it a week or two in advance. You DO NOT need to call me everyday, multiple times a day to remind me.

I went to Westwood College online, a few years ago, Paying on a 14,000 dollar loan, thru Sallie Mae, and the Dept. of Education. 7000 for each loan. Am I crazy or no. The thing is I only went for 5 and a half months and dropped out. Can't believe I owe 14,000 for 5 and a half months, and I have been paying for years, maybe 3. Now Sallie Mae is saying I missed a payment, which I haven't. Now the harassing phone goes day and night, and stupid me they asked where I work. Now I'm sure I will get harass now at my work. Can you help, or guide me in the right direction.

My experience with Sallie Mae has been horrible. My daughter had a loan with them for school in which I am a cosigner on the loan. I got sick and my daughter had to put school on hold for awhile to help me out. Before I could completely recover, the harassment started and has not let up. They call us constantly and even at my work place in which I explained that I'm not allowed to get personal calls and asked them to stop before they get me terminated. They do not care. If I get terminated I explained they won't get anything. My daughter cannot afford to pay them a lump sum of money and the payment they are trying to bully out of us neither of us can pay due to my still trying to recover from being sick, yet they do not care. They harassed her to tears and commenced to tell her what she should do to get the money.

Where to begin with this company, they've been a nightmare from the beginning and they never seem to get better! I fell for the low monthly payment of $25 and then got slammed with a much higher payment right around Christmas. When I called to see if they could help I was rudely told I could either default on the loan or go back to school and defer it... Yeah, not helpful. That was several years ago and I'm still paying on that loan, which they told me I'd have paid off in October, but somehow my payments don't seem to add up and my interest rate got raised and I've been paying more than they ask each month on time.

Sallie Mae is doing so horribly they had to change their name to NAVIENT. They're still horrible. I've had multiple issues with them and their customer service is so rude. Here's some examples of their rudeness: I'd taken care of a bill the day before. The day after, Sallie Mae calls. I say "Oh I've already gotten that taken care of." He says "Well obviously it hasn't been taken care of otherwise we wouldn't be calling now would we?" Guy calls and tries to keep me on the phone. I tell him I'm out and would like to wait until I'm home to look at the computer and my accounts.

My son took student loans to finish his college. He graduated in 2014. He has met EVERY requirement of the "remove co-signer application" available on their website. His credit score is north of 775. No loans other than the student loans...and the denied it, saying loan to debt ratio was too high??? I contacted my state representative, and NBC Responds, the television station seeks to help people with problems that they can't seem to resolve. Neither got far. The BIG BANK is boss, and with 43% of people in default on student loans, they will do anything to hold onto co-signors...it is wrong. Just be frickin honest, and put on your website, you will not be able to remove co-signer unless they die or loan is paid off. YOU SUCK SALLIE MAE!!!

My son borrowed money and I was the co-signer. I can not even make up how bad the customer service is. Once he graduated and started to work his student loans went up from 25.00 a month to 540.00 a month. We called and got them dropped to 205 a month. The process was set up with Sallie Mae and by Sallie Mae. It took 6 one-hour long or more phone calls to get it straight. Phone calls so bad that I do not understand how a organization ran like this could be in business. One call I was transferred 8 times, the record is 10. There is so many hidden items in the loan contract and the way they conduct business is worst. Please parents and students, find other funding.

So my parents co-signed on a $10,000 loan for me. My parents live in a different state than I do. Now, if I am like three days late with my payment here's what happens: My dad texts me, "Sallie Mae is calling multiple times per day on your loan." I start getting automated calls from them a couple hours later (outside business hours so I can't call back right away).

In 2002 I went to college and graduated early in 2004. One of my loans was with Sallie Mae and I borrowed $14,000 for school. Today is 2016. Yes 12 years later guess what my loan balance is - a whopping $17400.00 and we make monthly payments. Now I took math in school and for some reason our payments do not touch the principal. It just adds up. And we have paid $275.00 monthly. You figure it out... and more to pay... not sure how this is possible. But it is. We continue to pay due to credit, we would be ruined if we did not pay this... a life time of sorrow.

I co-signed for a loan for my son who is out of school but has no job. The deferment period is over and Sallie Mae whets their money. I am a single parent, have school loans of my own. A few payments missed, they called me, I paid at least half and asked if any information was sent that can have a negative effect on my credit report. I was told no. Today I found out that they lied to me. My score is down 80 POINTS!!! EVERYONE KNOWS HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BUILD A GOOD CREDIT SCORE!! I have heard horror stories about Sallie Mae but I am now having my own experience!!! It sucks to be between the realm of 'rich' and 'poor'. You do not qualify for assistance and you do not make enough to pay your own way so you have to resort to the likes of Sallie Mae!!!

I wish with all of my heart that I had never heard of Sallie Mae and never helped my child apply for a loan and co-signed these stupid loans. We could not get any loans anywhere else even with good credit. We are out of deferments with Sallie Mae. My child don't have a job right now. She is trying to find something. I don't understand what is going to happen. She has tried to make some kind of payment each month, but can't make their high payments. We have called and talked to Sallie Mae almost every month and never get straight answers. I couldn't make payments all the time when she was in school, and I am unable to help much now with my husband unable to work due to being injured at work. Am I going to lose everything I own over this? I am worried sick but don't know what to do and can't find anyone to help me. I found this site this time. Is there anyone out there that can at least direct me where to go for help?

I wish I had read these reviews prior to falling prey to this Legal Loan Shark of a company. I, like the rest of us that want to further the education of our children, had to pay for everything - no grants, no nothing. However, I been paying all four loans while my son was in school from the start, 4 years of it, that was over $1,000 a month every month for 4 years. Then he graduated, Whoopie. Can't find a job. I send each payment (2) separate accounts, two separate bill pay checks sent. I send extra. I get told that I am behind. I asked, "How could that be, I send more than the minimum required amounts each month." Ready for this explanation.

Sallie Mae is the worst loan company I have worked with, and I will regret my decision until the day I die. Sallie Mae promises new loan buyers the world, but once you sign the papers, their well-wishes become fangs filled with venom. When I first applied for a Sallie Mae loan, I was hooked by their low-interest rate (which, compared to the other loan providers, 6% was great). After signing the dotted line, that 6% became 9%. When I argued it, the customer service reps would either sit there in silence, laugh or just hang up on me.

First of all I never used the Sallie Mae loan because my ex-husband between 2009 and 2014 was in the military and I had went to University of Phoenix and Pikes Peak Community College. Sallie Mae charged me for schools that I didn't even go to. I gave them proof that my identity was stolen and they keep sending me more and more bill statements after stating that I never gone to these horrible schools that wasn't even accredited like Remington College or Everest. Don't ever apply there because some students don't even get jobs after they were promised that they would. They have no accreditation and have the highest rate of college dropouts. They pool your information and tell you you owe them even when you did not go. So Sallie Mae is a piece of useless loan that makes you pay when you didn't go and puts it on your credit. However they can go fly a kite because I am NOT PAYING FOR A SCHOOL I NEVER WENT TO and neither should you.

While my son was in school, he was paying $200 a month toward his loan. Suddenly, they started sending him back a check for $200 a month. We called the phone number provided on the check to find out why. They were to return our call with an answer within 10 days. Nope. Meanwhile, this went on for five months. After speaking to numerous people at numerous numbers that they kept transferring us around to, NOT ONE person could explain why they were sending him $200 every month.

Sallie Mae is the worst loans for students you say look I have no job. I can't get a job. I have no money. Well you have to pay X amount of dollars for you to get a forbearance and it's 50 per loan. Well if I had that 50 per loan then I wouldn't need this... They don't care what kind of situation you have they want that money... and since you can't file bankruptcy on them they have you... But guess what if you get disabled or draw social security you don't have to pay it is forgiven so what the hell get disab... Then it's all forgiven and then go back to work lol... And the personal loans, signature loans those can be dismissed on bankruptcy so what the hell file easier to start your credit over then get them off your back.

I was told, by my financial adviser, that Sallie Mae was the way to go when getting a student loan. It was not. First off, they divided it into 3 separate loans which one was for a ridiculously low amount... that I could've, literally, paid out of pocket... and each had a different interest rate. When it came time to pay, I wasn't allowed to pay more towards one, they divided it up for me and less than half of what I was paying went to the principle balance. A total joke. Customer service was absolutely horrendous and no help at all. I'd get transferred time and time again. Then when I left school, they demanded I pay the remaining amount in full. There was no way I could pay 10 grand out of pocket. They automatically put my loan into default. It took me 6 months to get them to agree to a payment plan. I could go on and on about how awful this company is. If anyone recommends that you go through them, just don't!

I applied to Sallie Mae based off of my college advisor (whom I wish I never listened to) when I was applying for College. I had to open a loan and my advisor kept "selling" Sallie Mae to me because ALL her students used it. Since I had less than a week to get my application thru so that I could get approved after I was accepted, I thought, what the heck, why not, seems like a well trusted company.