But the banks said the eventual annual savings from the merger would total $1.7 billion, $200 million more than first estimated.
In the end, the savings totaled about $14.5 million, school officials said.
The savings would total $1.6 billion in the current fiscal year and $14.9 billion over five years.
Aides said that under this option the overall potential savings over a three-year period would total $161 billion.
He estimated that the savings would total "at least $40 million."
The savings could total $7 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture.
The savings would total about $32 million; the impact could be horrendous.
From 2006 to 2015, it estimated, savings would total $343 billion.
The net savings through 2002 should total $112 billion, the budget office said.
The savings, he said, would total $48,000 over the life of the mortgage.