<human>: I've been out of school for about 2 years now and am looking to buy my first home. I've saved up $35k for a downstroke on a $160k house. I make about $60k+OT so I don't think I'm in over my head.... Except student loans.    
   
I borrowed $50k for school (not terrible IMO), but about $15k of that is a private loan at 11% because I had no other option at the time. My payment is over $700 which seems completely unreasonable to me since other people with similar debt pay 1/2 to 1/3 of what I do.   
   
I don't know the first thing about how to go about refinancing education debt, and all the lenders I've checked out, seem to only offer buying out your loan without helping out on the interest rate more than a fraction of a perfect.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: $60k student loan is almost as much as a $160k mortgage. What can I do to fix this??