<p>Does anyone know approximately what is the minimum credit score needed to qualify? and if the applicant does not qualify, will they qualify with a co-signer automatically?</p>
<p>If you are talking about a ParentPlus loan, there is not a credit score check. The check only looks for recent bankruptcy, default on a federal education loan, and any payment currently 90 days or more past due</p>
<p>Ok thank god</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>If you need your parents to take out Plus loans for each year that you’re in college, that is likely going to be a problem when they have to keep borrowing.</p>
<p>I don’t know how the “credit check” works for Plus loans, but there have been parents here on CC that have been denied Plus loans for later school years because they had already borrowed too much. </p>
<p>How much do you need your parents to borrow? Are they low income?</p>
<p>NYU (gee what a surprise :rolleyes: )</p>
<p>*LSP Scholarship 7 500,00
LSP Eckhouse Scholarship 6 000,00
LSP Provost’s Grant 4 000,00
**Early Decision Pell Grant 5 550,00 **
Early Decision Work Study 3 000,00
Early Decision Perkins Loan 2 400,00
Early Decision Stafford 3 500,00
Early Decision Unsub 2 000,00
**Early Decision PLUS 21,590.00 **
*</p>
<p>Oh my goodness!!</p>
<p>You’re eligible for full Pell which suggests low income. Are you expecting your parents to borrow $22k per year? Are you serious? How do you expect them to pay back $90k in debt? You will have about $30k in debt by yourself!!!</p>
<p>NYU is soooooooo not worth this kind of debt.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids…Is that correct? All of the Plus info I have read says you can borrow up to the full COA and the only check is for the adverse credit history I describe above. I don’t think they do an income/debt ratio.</p>
<p>Like I said…I don’t know what the “credit check” is for Plus Loans…all I can say is that you have to re-qualify EACH year and families have reported here on CC that they’ve been denied when they’ve reapplied for later years because they had borrowed too much. </p>
<p>BTW…just because the system might allow you to ‘way over borrow’ that doesn’t mean that doing so is ok. </p>
<p>The OP’s family is obviously low income because the student qualifies for FULL PELL. To think that they’re going to be expected to borrow $90k is just crazy. I don’t understand kids who would have such an expectation - especially when that family is not affluent. </p>
<p>does the OP have ANY idea of what kind of payments his parents will be required to make? Well over $12,000 per year for 10 years. Does he really think his family can afford that?</p>
<p>On the Plus Loan website it says…</p>
<p>What if I am not approved for the PLUS Loan?
There are several options if you are not approved for the PLUS Loan, as some applications are declined for reasons other than poor credit.</p>
<p>I don’t know what those “other” reasons are, but I would imagine that if a family who earns - say $40k per year won’t be allowed to borrow some ridiculous amount that no reasonable person would think that they could repay. After all, such a family could have 2-3 kids in college. Does it make sense that they could be borrowing - say $60k per year - for their kids to go to college?</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids, </p>
<p>I find your responses full of assumption and inaccuracy. You have even succeeded in confusing keylyme who unlike you provided a clearcut answer to my question.
I have the resources to pay 80,000 of what would be my parent’s 90k debt. Not including the money I could potentially receive from my grandparents who have the finances to support my education. Therefore, what my parents choose or dont choose to take out in loans is none of your concern seeing how you don’t know the whole picture and frankly, I wasn’t looking for Financial Aid counseling when I posted this thread.</p>
<p>I have the resources to pay 80,000 of what would be my parent’s 90k debt.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>If you have the resources to pay…then how would you have a 0 EFC and why would your parents need to borrow so much money? Why not just pay from your resources?</p>