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Oct 14, 2011

Web startup tackles student debt “crisis”

By Jon Cook

(Reuters) – Sue Khim was in her third year of medical school, $50,000 in debt and wondering if she would ever dig herself out.

Instead of simply making the minimum monthly payments on her student loans, Khim scoured the Web to find banks that offered better interest rates. The discrepancies shocked her, with rates varying from 11 percent to 6 percent.
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