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Utah-based startup Degree Insurance wants to help students pay off their debt — by insuring college degrees.
Sierra Golding didn’t plan on going to college after graduating high school in 2015, mostly because she couldn’t afford it. Instead, she went abroad to teach English.
A couple years later, her high school debate coach called and said the team at the University of Utah wanted to recruit her, and that it would pay for school.
She accepted the offer, in part, because the coach pitched it to her as a done deal.
“That summer rolled around and I reached out to him and I was like, ‘Hey, I don't see my scholarship on my financial aid page,” Golding said. “And he was like, ‘Well, you didn't apply.’ And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?’”