<prompt> Human: Hello!Im paying off my student loans and am feeling like Im not making any real progress. One thing I thought would help is being more strategic about attacking my loans by their size and interest rate. Hoping people here would be able to help me develop a good allocation.My loans total 17996 and changeI go through mygreatlakes which allows me to set a percentage. As such I have set my individual loans and their rates below:1. 2,255.42 4.252. 1,396.74 6.553. 2,876.39 3.154. 1,350.32 6.555. 2,935.83 3.156. 1,261.25 6.557. 3,580.27 3.618. 1,339.34 3.619. 699.42 4.4110. 243.39 4.41What sort of allocations of my payment should I be setting? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!  <response>: Minimum payments required on all of them. Any extra money you have should go to the highest interest rate loan, and if there are multiple loans at that interest rate, pick the one with the smallest remaining principle. That is called the avalanche method, and you can read more about it in the sidebar there is a nice flow chart of where your money should be going. 