While the rate level is set by a pre-determined formula, the Obama administration was able to retroactively reset interest rates through a bipartisan effort in 2013.
The insane part is that college has a good chance to have no effect on your overall earning potential. Polymatter did an excellent video on it recently.
Yeah, it really only comes down to whether you're at an ivy and networking for future connections. Source: did not attain a college degree, ended up among CS grads.
It honestly didn't look good to me in 1999 when RIT was hitting 40k and i only had to pay half the cost. Can you imagine now? Absolutely nothing has been done to actually solve student loans, just a politicized and heavily obstructed attempt to relieve some debt. And now we've hiked the rates up to damn near double digits and said go get em kids! It's like the 80s all over again except someone added two zeros to the price of everything.
Seems like a real good plan to have a well educated and happy workforce. I don’t see at all how policies and systems like this could lead to the downfall of a civilization.