You are enrolling in an MBA program. To pay your tuition, you can either take out a standard student loan (so the interest payments are not tax deductible) that has an EAR of 5.5 % or you can use a tax-deductible home equity loan with an APR (monthly compounding) of 6 % . You anticipate being in a very low tax bracket, so your tax rate will be only 15 % . Which loan should you use?

The after-tax rates for the two loans are:

Compare	Percent
Standard loan rate:

%. (Round to three decimal places.)
Home equity loan rate:

%.

(Round to three decimal places.)