<p>Someone has to have some advice...if not just share what lender you chose and why and how it worked out</p>
<p>We went with Sallie Mae and have not had any problems so far as others have posted in the past. We used them for the stafford loan and parent plus loan. We just finished freshman year with daughter and we opted to defer any payments til after D graduated from college. They were helpful when we spoke with them on the phone to clarify an issue. With that said, however, we will shop around for better terms. Since we were new at the time to this whole loan thing we didn’t know better. We found out at a later time that Discover was offering no origination fees for the stafford loans, so I am going to look into that for the next academic year. Meaning what you get is 100% what you get.</p>