Is a tuition deposit a preferential payment?

[enuffznuff]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum.

I am enrolled in a university program that begins in August. I had to put down a tuition deposit to hold my spot. The deposit was, inconveniently, over $600.
Does this create any kind of preference issue that requires waiting 90 days? If so that's fine, I just need to know if that is a 'normal course' type of thing or a preferential payment.

[LadyInTheRed]

Bankruptcy Code Section 547 covers preferences. Subsection (c) provides:

(c) The trustee may not avoid under this section a transfer—
(1) to the extent that such transfer was—
(A) intended by the debtor and the creditor to or for whose benefit such transfer was made to be a contemporaneous exchange for new value given to the debtor; and
(B) in fact a substantially contemporaneous exchange;

I think your tuition deposit is a contemporaneous exchange. Check with an attorney to be sure.