I very curious about this, as well. I got my first prescreened offers last night. It was for the Gold, Green and Blue Sky. Do you remember your 'welcome offer' for the Blue Sky? Mine was 17% APR and 15,000 points when I spend $250 in the first 3 months. The spend vs the points seems low (but very nice). It seemed like a solid offer. I'm currently reporting 27% util but by next Wednesday, I'll be right at 1%. I don't think I'll apply until the end of next week.
Do you think your offers changed from one month to the next based on a possible change in util or credit score? What's weird about mine... I checked all three bureaus today and couldn't find a SP by AMEX. Maybe it takes a day or so to show but I found it kind of weird they offered a specific rate, had the opt out prescreen blurb on the page and offered a special welcome points offering yet I don't see a SP. Was that also your experience?
I think your income should be fine with your scores. Like the previous post, I've read about students getting approved with lower income than yours.
Good luck if you apply.
@axledobe wrote:I very curious about this, as well. I got my first prescreened offers last night. It was for the Gold, Green and Blue Sky. Do you remember your 'welcome offer' for the Blue Sky? Mine was 17% APR and 15,000 points when I spend $250 in the first 3 months. The spend vs the points seems low (but very nice). It seemed like a solid offer. I'm currently reporting 27% util but by next Wednesday, I'll be right at 1%. I don't think I'll apply until the end of next week.
Do you think your offers changed from one month to the next based on a possible change in util or credit score? What's weird about mine... I checked all three bureaus today and couldn't find a SP by AMEX. Maybe it takes a day or so to show but I found it kind of weird they offered a specific rate, had the opt out prescreen blurb on the page and offered a special welcome points offering yet I don't see a SP. Was that also your experience?
I think your income should be fine with your scores. Like the previous post, I've read about students getting approved with lower income than yours.
Good luck if you apply.
The Blue Sky offer was a mailed offer (snail mail) and I know I threw it away because I don't travel at all. It doesn't show me anything about that offer online, just says to refer to the mailing. It does show the lowest apr for the BCP and Blue card in the online offers.
I've checked both my EX and TU reports and they haven't softed me on either since December so I'm not sure why they changed. I can't check my EQ yet because they couldn't verify my identity online when I tried a couple days ago and had to go the phone route so they are mailing it to me within 15 days. My scores are lower now than in my sig from the new accounts reporting but I haven't checked to see what they are at right now. Util doesn't go over 10% as I don't have many expenses and is only at 4% right now including the AU account.
My credit history is thin but strong. No derogs of any kind. AAoA is 8yrs 3mo (all revolving cc's) now that the new cards have reported. The amount of new CL that I've obtained recently may be a little concering to them since their last soft doesn't show the $6.9k barclay, $5k cli from Cap1 or the $500 from chase. Also, if their algorithem doesn't ignore AU accts then they will see another $14k from that added last month. I'm thinking I'll wait until after the 15th when all my cards should have reported for the month, make sure Barclays doesn't have a fit over the CLI etc and then probably go for it. That sign up bonus is just too good to pass up if it expires soon 
Good luck to you as well if you decide to go for the Blue Sky.
And thank you Twas_Sovereign for your input as well.
I hope we can both report back as AMEX account holders doing the happy approval dance. Good luck, CelticLady. I wish you the best. Please report back when you decide to app. I'm very interested in the result.