Yes, you can consider tuition paid with loans as paid by you in the year that the school was paid. You paying off the loans isn't a factor, just when the tuition was paid. Your calculation does seem correct, if that was your situation, but make sure that the loan was paid to the school in 2017, and not late 2016.
When you are entering your 1098-T, Click the link What if this is not what I paid? and enter your actual payments there.
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