<prompt> Human: Ive seen much discussion here about people with student loans having their loan servicing company either not pay the highest loans off first or needing to manually choose that the loans with the highest interest be paid off first. I finally figured out where online I can see the history of individual loans in my student loan package and became very concerned when only a few of the individual loans had lower amounts than the principal and these loans were not the ones with the highest interest rate. Im in even more distress as I have repeatedly brought this up in phone calls and was assured that paying highest interest loan principles first was the standard practice. PS: amounts in dollars; loan servicer is Great Lakes. Interest Principle Amt.Current Bal.--::--:--6.554,104.504,386.366.552,000.002,098.066.551,646.461,688.934.252,094.001,927.843.155,500.005,059.293.155,500.005,136.87I have been paying as much as is possible since I graduated last year, 232.58month for 12 months for a total of 2,790.96. I just recently got a decent job and was reassessing if I could alot more onto the debt. Questions: Can anyone tell how they are applying the payments? It looks as though they might be paying off the interest on all loans and then paying off the lowest interest rates principle. Is this true? Is this standard practice? Should I be accosting the loan servicer to pay off the interest and then apply payments to the highest interest rate loans?  <response>: This information is readily available on their website. You might be interested in this topic, posted today how-to Great Lakes 