1.

Mike
July 16th, 2006 at 9:17 am

But how do they track whether it was an educational institution that you paid? Do they have a complete database? Are you going to have to submit your tuition bills?

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inagm
July 16th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

not fair! I’m out of school now.

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Nick
July 16th, 2006 at 9:56 pm

Mike,

Anywhere you use your credit card, the merchant will provide a category of the purchase to the credit card issuer. Most restaurants tag their credit card transactions as “Restaurant” while I believe all educational institutions use a generic tag like “Education” or maybe something more specific like “Tuition.” I’ll let you know when I charge Tegan’s tuition for the semester. Either way, I’ll have to do no extra work on my part (except maybe find my Discover card ^_^).

Hmm, I wonder if I can prepay her tuition for the next couple of years…

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Jonathan
July 21st, 2006 at 4:09 am

Now the trick is to find a university that takes Discover, as mine doesn’t :/

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Nick
July 21st, 2006 at 7:57 am

Yeah, my alma mater doesn’t accept it either, I believe. But it looks like community colleges seem to accept it more often. I’ve yet to see any school take AMEX…