Personally, Stacie Whisonant paid her way through college by serving in the military.

It was an option and, in her case, a good one — she graduated cum laude from Longwood University with very little student debt and was able to go on to buy her own home and begin a career in banking with HSBC.

But quickly, through her professional experience in banking and her personal experience with her family and friends, Whisonant realized how unique her position was. She realized just how many students emerge from university saddled with an obscene amount of debt, and how sometimes even a very small amount of money at the right time can mean the difference between getting that degree or not.

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