Students may elect to pay tuition over time, using the Elmhurst College Payment Plan. Before the term begins, you pay 20 percent of the balance on your account. You pay the remaining balance in monthly installments over the next four months. A 1 percent monthly service charge is added to any unpaid balance. Here's how three families paid their tuition and fees in 1998-99.
Abbey is a second-year campus resident from a family of four.
She is the only member of her family currently in college. Please note that extra charges such as phone bills, room damage fees, parking fines, and late payment charges may be added to Abbey's balance due. Bill is a first-year commuter student. He lives with his mother and his younger sister. Neither has any savings.