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Undergraduate
High School

Tuition Prepayment Plan (ILAP)

Author: Thomas L. Fitzkee


You have heard about the South Carolina Tuition Prepayment Program (SCTPP) (htpp://www.scgrad.org), but you wonder if it is a good deal. It allows you to prepay your daughter's college tuition and guarantee payment to attend any South Carolina public four-year institution for four years.

Table of Contents:

SETTING THE SCENE

LUMP SUM PAYMENT
Money Market Account
Savings Bonds
Certificates of Deposit

48 MONTHLY PAYMENTS
Money Market Account
Savings Bonds

MONTHLY PAYMENTS UNTIL COLLEGE
Money Market Account
Savings Bonds

COMPARISON OF OPTIONS

SAMPLE SOLUTIONS
Lump Sum Payment
48 Monthly Payments
Monthly Payments until College
Comparison of SCTPP Options

REFERENCES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

©2003 by COMAP, Inc.
The UMAP Journal 24.1
26 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Discrete & Finite Mathematics , Business Mathematics , Discrete Dynamical Systems, Discrete Mathematics, Difference Equations

Application Areas:

Business & Economics , Tuition Prepayment

Prerequisites:

1. Modeling with difference equations or sequences.
2. Performing iteration of difference equations using a computational tool (spreadsheets on computers or calculators in sequence mode).

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