CommonBond - Student Loans

Hey! I can't speak to Prodigy, but I joined the CommonBond Family back in the summer of 2015 to pay for the bulk of my first year of the Wharton MBA program. My original motivation to join CommonBond was primarily financial. I wanted a fixed rate so that I could have more concrete numbers to plan my post-graduation employment plans around, and CommonBond's was easily the best. Finances aside, when I started looking into other lenders, I kept getting drawn back to CommonBond because of their Social Promise. If I was locking myself in financially with an institution, it was nice knowing that my business was (and is) doing more for the world than just growing the top line of a lender's balance sheet.

After I signed, I really didn't have many expectations for the lender-lendee relationship, but it's actually been amazing. I got a personally-tailored care package in the mail a few weeks after starting school, and they take me out to dinner here in Philly every now and then just to chat and hear from me. I even got a free spot on their annual Impact in Action trip to Ghana to see their Social Promise firsthand. I can't for the life of me think of another lender that would do any of the above.

I think the decision on which lender to use is a highly personal one, but I can tell you without hesitation that I'm extremely satisfied with CommonBond.

Good luck!