Talk:Sallie Mae leads Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints about student loans

Journalist notes
Student loans are an area of interest to me. They have come up again with the debt crisis looming. Banks are often getting complaints. This research addresses that to a degree. I think this is a newsworthy analysis, but do admit it could probably do with more contextualing though I feel it can stand on its own. The research was done today. The raw data was sent to scoop. --LauraHale (talk) 21:42, 29 September 2013 (UTC)


 * The limits of the data set that I used appeared to exclude by state except when all data was looked at. I went to all data, filtered out on my computer all non-student loans.  I then did a COUNTIF call on excel and got the following totals by state:

State	Count of student complaints NY	497 CA	467 PA	303 FL	288 OH	219 TX	215 IL	214 NJ	212 MA	198 GA	161 MI	153 VA	152 MD	151 NC	106 CT	97 WA	92 AZ	81 MO	80 IN	79 MN	77 CO	76 WI	68 TN	67 OR	60 DC	50 SC	47 AL	41 WV	41 NH	41 KY	37 LA	35 IA	33 ME	33 OK	32 KS	31 NV	25 NE	24 AR	23 NM	21 ID	20 VT	18 DE	16 RI	16 MT	15 UT	15 HI	12 MS	11 AK	9 PR	9 WY	8 SD	7 AE	5 ND	5 AP	3 MP	1 --LauraHale (talk) 08:22, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

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 * Added a source and a sentence. I cannot find good numbers for these because student loans on that level are dealt with by the Fed and they are not releasing that information.  The first paragraph should make clear that Sallie Mae is the biggest complaint source and the biggest lender.  The top five also are in there. --LauraHale (talk) 15:06, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Wrong photo of SLM headquarters
The image at the start of the article is out of date. That building now houses Verisign as SLM moved corporate headquarters to Delaware from Reston VA two years ago.