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Fitch Rates National Collegiate Student Loan Trust 2007-4 'AAA'.


NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned the following ratings to National Collegiate Student Loan Trust's student loan asset-backed notes, series 2007-4:

--$150,000,000 class A-1-L 'AAA';

--$94,200,000 class A-2-AR-1 'AAA';

--$94,200,000 class A-2-AR-2 'AAA';

--$94,200,000 class A-2-AR-3 'AAA';

--$31,400,000 class A-2-AR-4 'AAA';

--$550,000,000 class A-3-L 'AAA';

--$67,500,000 class A-3-AR-1 'AAA';

--$67,500,000 class A-3-AR-2 'AAA';

--$67,500,000 class A-3-AR-3 'AAA';

--$67,500,000 class A-3-AR-4 'AAA';

--$67,500,000 class A-3-AR-5 'AAA';

--$67,500,000 class A-3-AR-6 'AAA';

--$45,000,000 class A-3-AR-7 'AAA';

--Notional class A-IO 'AAA'.

The ratings are based on the quality of the student loan portfolio, the credit enhancement within the trust, the sound legal structure, and the financial guaranty insurance policy provided by Ambac Assurance Corporation Ambac Assurance Corporation

A subsidiary of publicly traded Ambac Financial Group that provides financial guarantees for municipal borrowers and for asset-backed and structured issues.
. The ratings reflect the ability of the trust to pay note principal at the legal final maturity and timely interest in accordance with the terms of the documents. Interest on the class A-1-L and class A-3-L notes is equal to the one-month London Interbank Offered Rate London Interbank Offered Rate

A short-term interest rate often quoted as a 1,3,6-month rate for U.S.dollars.
 (LIBOR LIBOR

See: London Interbank Offered Rate


LIBOR

See London interbank offered rate (LIBOR).
) plus a spread. Interest on the class IO notes is equal to a fixed rate of 5.586%. The remaining notes are taxable, 28-day auction-rate securities.

The collateral supporting the securities consists entirely of private student loans guaranteed for 100% of principal and accrued interest by The Education Resources Institute (TERI TERI The Education Resources Institute (education financing)
TERI Tata Energy Research Institute (India)
TERI The Energy and Resources Institute (India) 
; insurer financial strength rated 'A+' by Fitch). The loans are originated by various lenders through programs based on similar underwriting standards determined by TERI. Approximately 99% of the loans are underwritten to a creditworthy cred·it·wor·thy  
adj.
Having an acceptable credit rating.



credit·wor
 standard and 83.7% of the loans originated with a co-signer. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, or "PHEAA", headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with regional offices throughout the state , is the quasi-governmental agency that administers several State higher education student financial aid programs.  will act as the servicer on approximately 98.7% of the loans.

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In many cases, terms of service are used as a contractual agreement between a company and users of a service they provide.
 of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental  are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.
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