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by bjornsing 5250 days ago
Exactly my thought. This is a huge difference compared to mortgages; with mortgages the originator gets perhaps 2%(?) of a good loan but with student loans the "originator" gets a very large share.

The skin in the game effective tells a mortgage originator that if one loan in five goes bad they lose all their revenue(!) but the same message to universities would be that if one loan in five goes bad they have to raise their prices by 2% to compensate.