StudentDebtSim

Ever been afraid of your financial future? Imagine yourself now, in the shoes of yourself back in highschool with the knowledge you have about student loans. We want to work to spread that knowledge.

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Inspiration

As a graduating college senior, I look around and I see some of my peers who have already graduated learning and remembering the horrors of what they signed up for to pay for classes. When we're young, we're unsure of the certainty of our financial security in the future, with that comes a lot of irrational decisions based on our idealistic goals. Sometimes we set our security in mind aside for pursuit at our dream schools, and then learn to deal with these nightmares later.

We want to make the future look a little more bright and predictable for students in high school. To have the option to see how their future could look like if they chose to take into student loans.

What it does

We use logical calculations based on user input, Stafford Loan estimations, and University information to determine what a student's 4-year loan in college will look like with monthly payments.

Challenges we ran into

Some of the challenges we ran into were acquiring data for university tuition and loan information. We also didn't realize how many logical decisions were needed in the backend, which didn't let us fully incorporate calculations from the Salary and Expenses page in time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In the end, we were able to get a minimal viable product displaying a full-fledged front end, and a backend working to scape university information and calculate monthly loans.

What's next for StudentDebtSim

In the future, we would like to have implemented the Salary page and Expense page more and have more loan options available besides just Government Stafford Loan. There's a lot of calculations and expressions I have written out for more cool data you can't find anywhere else that we weren't able to implement on time.

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