No interest or repayment is required while you are enrolled at least half-time in college or graduate school, and for nine months thereafter. Full information, including deferral and cancellation privileges, is provided when the promissory note is signed during an entrance loan counseling session. Attendance at an exit loan counseling interview is required before leaving the university. This variable rate is set every year in June. No interest is charged and no payments are due until 6 months after you graduate or leave Tufts.
Deferments are available.
Contact Sallie Mae for more information. If you are not eligible for a subsidized Federal Stafford Loan you may borrow an unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan. Dependent undergraduates may borrow up to the subsidized Stafford Loan limits less the amount of any subsidized loan received. You are required to attend an entrance loan counseling interview at Tufts prior to the disbursement of your first loan at Tufts. You will also be required to attend an exit interview before you graduate or leave Tufts.