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Getting Credit Cards in College – a Guide for Young College Students

Credit is important, especially when it’s time to buy or lease a house, an apartment, or a car. While parents can help you build your credit by adding you onto their own accounts, that’s not the case for everyone.

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8 Brilliant Tips on How to Choose the Best Student Credit Cards

Credit card choices for college students are constrained. You have to consider the kinds of purchases you make frequently and fees needed for having a specific card wisely.

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Helpful Credit Card Application Tips for College Students

Credit cards are quite expensive, and you should take your time before applying for them. It is a smart idea to review and compare different offers prior to making the application.

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Money Challenges and the College Student

If you are a college student, then you are familiar with the financial challenges experienced by most collegians.

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Are Credit Cards a Trap for College Students?

You’ve heard the warning: credit cards for college students are a bad idea. Well, there is some truth to that statement. Especially when credit is easily dispensed, overused, and not properly managed.

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Debt Savvy: College Students and Credit Cards

It is a fact that most college students have a credit card.

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10 Common Financial Mistakes Every Student Should Avoid

Tweet By Roxanne Lane 1. Not Applying For Student Aid Most college students have applied for Federal Student Aid and college scholarships before leaving high school and they leave it

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Teaching Your College Child About Credit

Tweet By Kirby Cranson It is true that college opens up a world of new places and experiences — great restaurants, concert venues, new places to shop and people to

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Card Issuers Scale Back On Student Credit Cards

Tweet There once was a time when credit card issuers would sign up college students, issuing credit lines to them well before they were ready to graduate. Some students showed

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PSAs Encourages College Students To Control Their Debt

Tweet The college years can be a wonderful time for young adults to learn more about themselves and discover what direction their lives should take. It is also can be

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Student Credit Cards For Life’s Emergencies

Tweet Your student son or daughter is heading off to school in a few weeks and everything is in place. You’ve seen to it that clothes have been purchased, a

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Consumer Group Alleges FSU Improprieties

Tweet The relationship between a college and its student population is one that is built on mutual trust with students promising to follow clear lines of academic propriety while the