Private Answers To Go Public

 
Along with more and more users, we at Student Finance 101/Debt 101 keep getting more and more individual student loan questions.
 
It's understandable. There are indeed many mysteries in the world of student loans.
 
But the time pressures on this volunteer-run site just won't permit this kind of free individual counselling. And after all, this is what you're paying taxes and tuition fees for, right? Governments, banks and campuses should be answering these questions.
 
The fact that they don't always do that led to this website, that's true. Still, we must stop answering individual questions for now. Either that or go down with the site, so to speak.
 
In the meantime, this blog will start running answers given to a few of the more recent questions. We'll do that hoping they can help other people. Of course, all names, financial and personal details will be removed to protect people’s privacy.
 
These 'public' answers may also be rewritten a bit to clarify or add more detail to the original, private, answer.