<p>We help my son with the interest on his unsubsidized loans, but it is getting harder as he is going in his senior year. But, I do what I can, the interest over 4 years would have been overwhelming and while it was low (first year) I paid some on the principle to get it down a little bit.</p>
<p>Actually, we paid the interest and then principal on our son’s (small) unsub Stafford.
He has the max sub Stafford that he will repay.
We had him take the unsub staff, I think it was $1600 total for his last year only and we just paid it off.
I guess his undergrad balance is about $18000 which was agreed in our family to be manageable.</p>