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Students seeking loans for college are going to find it tougher than ever this year, MainStreet.com reports. Lenders are looking for ever-higher FICO scores—which students, most of whom haven’t built up years of credit history—don’t really have.

To get around that, one company is launching an online calculator which gets what they’re calling your Human Capital Score. Based on your SAT score, your high school GPA, your planned major in college and a few other factors, the company will calculate how much of a risk you are and how much money you’ll probably make after graduation.

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