1. Name and Address of Reporting Person
   Schoellkopf, Wolfgang
   11600 Sallie Mae Drive
   Reston, VA 20193
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
   SLM Corporation (SLM)
3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary)
4. Statement for Month/Year
   12/2002
5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)
   (X) Director                   ( ) 10% Owner
   ( ) Officer (give title below) ( ) Other (specify below)
7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
   (X) Form filed by One Reporting Person
   ( ) Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

TABLE I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
+------------------------------+----------+----------+---------+--------------------------+--------------+-----------+------------+ |1. Title of Security |2. Trans- |2A.Execu- |3. Trans-|4. Securities Acquired (A)|5. Amount of |6. Owner- |7. Nature | | | action | action | action| or Disposed of (D) |Securities | ship | of In- | | | Date | Date | Code | |Beneficially | Form: | direct | | | | | | |Owned | Direct | Bene- | | | (Month/ | (Month/ | | |Following | (D) or | ficial | | | Day/ | Day/ | +-----------+---+----------+ Year | Indirect| Owner- | | | Year) | Year) | |Amount |A/D|Price | | (I) | ship | +------------------------------+----------+----------+---------+-----------+---+----------+--------------+-----------+------------+ Common Stock 32953 D Common Stock 5000 I By Limited Partnership
TABLE II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
+----------+--------+-------+-------+---------+-----------+---------------------+----------------+----------+-------+-------+------+ |1. |2. |3. |3A. |4. |5. |6. |7. |8. |9. |10. |11. | | | | | | | | | | |Number |Owner- | | | | | | | | | | | |of |ship | | | | | | | | | | | |Deriv- |Form of| | | | | | | | | |Title and Amount| |ative |Deriv- | | | | | | | | | |of Underlying | |Secur- |ative |Nature| | |Conver- |Trans- |Execu- | |Number of | |Securities | |ities |Secur- |of | | |sion or |action |tion | |Derivative |Date Exercisable +-------+--------+ |Benefi-|ity: |In- | | |Exercise|Date |Date | |Securities |and Expiration Date | |Amount | |cially |Direct |direct| | |Price of| | |Transac- |Acquired(A)|(Month/Day/Year) | |or | |Owned |(D) or |Bene- | |Title of |Deriv- |(Month/|(Month/|tion Code|Disposed(D)+----------+----------+ |Number |Price of | |In- |ficial| |Derivative|ative |Day/ |Day/ | +-----+-----+Date Exer-|Expira- | |of |Derivative|at End |direct |Owner-| |Security |Security|Year) |Year) | |(A) |(D) |cisable |tion Date |Title |Shares |Security |of Year|(I) |ship | +----------+--------+-------+-------+---------+-----+-----+----------+----------+-------+--------+----------+-------+-------+------+ Stock $86 01/24/2 01/24/2 A 20000 01/24/2012 Common 20000 $86.0000 20000 D Option 002 002 Stock (Right to buy) Stock $87.93 02/06/2 02/06/2 A 31257 02/06/2003 08/13/2007 Common 31257 $87.9300 31257 D Option 002 002 Stock (Right to buy) Stock $95.37 08/16/2 08/16/2 A 9053 08/16/2003 01/13/2010 Common 9053 $95.3700 9053 D Option 002 002 Stock (Right to buy) Stock $95.37 08/16/2 08/16/2 A 12737 08/16/2003 01/15/2011 Common 12737 $95.3700 12737 D Option 002 002 Stock (Right to buy) Explanation of Responses: These options become exercisable upon the Company's common stock having a closing price on the New York Stock Exchange of $103.20, for five trading days, they also become exercisable on the fifth anniversary of the grant (January 24, 2007).
SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON /s/ Mary F. Eure (POA) DATE 02/10/2003