Quick quiz: would you rather have a student loan at 5.5% or one at 6.0%? Most people instinctively pick 5.5%. But what if the 5.5% loan has a 4% origination fee, a 20-year term, and no autopay discount? And the 6.0% loan has zero origination fee, a 10-year term, and a 0.25% rate reduction for automa

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