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The Arkansas Free Scholarship Search website carefully selected eStudentLoan as the website sponsor. Rather than plaster this site with several loan advertisements, we feel that the eStudentLoan website provides students, parents, and counselors with the information to make educated decisions about student loans. Please read the paragraphs below to learn more about why we chose eStudentLoan as an approved source for finding student loans in Arkansas.

  About eStudentLoan 

eStudentLoan is the premiere marketplace for student loans on the Web. Students and parents use eSL to compare education financing alternatives and apply online for loans. Unlike other financial aid resources, eSL is the only site which provides personalized apples-to-apples comparisons of loan programs from the nation's top lenders.

The Washington D.C.-based organization started in late 1997 and is guided by an advisory board of Financial Aid professionals, students, parents, and venture capital investors. eStudentLoan is dedicated to helping families find, compare and choose educational funding.

Facts in Brief 

What is eStudentLoan?
eStudentLoan is the best place on the Web for students and parents to compare loans and apply online. Our focus is matching students and parents with the loan that best fits their needs. The service also provides a complete array of basic financial aid advice.

What is the depth of the site?
eSL has more information on Private and Alternative Loans than anywhere else on the Web. Additionally, eSL has extensive information about federally guaranteed Parent (PLUS) loans and federal Stafford loans. The eSL LoanFinder is the only real time, on-the-fly, customized apples-to-apples student loan comparison tool on the web. No lender would ever invest the time and money to create a database that would compare their loans to those of other lenders. But since eSL is not a lender and has no constituency to offend by comparing loans - we did it. eStudentLoan has been operating since mid-1998, and since that time an amazing number of visitors have praised the site. While much of eSL's praise comes from appreciative students, parents and financial aid directors have sent supportive comments as well.

Who uses the site?
High school seniors, undergraduates and grad students use eStudentLoan.com because it's the one place on the Web where they can find and compare lenders who have loans tailored to their specific needs. Parents looking for education funding for their college-age children use eStudentLoan because eSL is and unbiased source of information which recommends only those loans that fit the family's needs. Busy financial aid professionals with increasingly limited resources who are searching for ways to provide personalized information to students visit eStudentLoan because it is the only Web-based organization helping students sort through the cumbersome maze of loans and lenders.

Who created eStudentLoan?
eSL enlists a terrific combination of people to help make this site happen. The eSL team consists of undergrad and grad students, parents, financial aid directors, finance specialists, writers, education policy specialists, former Sallie Mae and American Bankers Association executives, non-profit types and internet geeks.

In addition to the eSL staff, a group of Financial Aid administrators, bankers and education policy experts help to create and review content. A financial aid board of advisors, headed up by Herm Davis, Ph.D., co-author of College Financial Aid for Dummies and a nationally known figure in the education world, provides expert advice.

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