I got the letter too and I'm actually kind of sad about it as it means no more points for good grades... On a funny side note, this now means I will have not one, not two, but three Citi Forward cards! (There's a story behind that of course...)
@Anonymous wrote:
You've piqued my interest! I've gotta ask...how do you have 3 Citi Forward cards?
I got the mtvU card back in 2007 and liked the categories on it so when the Forward first came out around 2009, I figured I'd go for it as it had the same point scheme as the mtvU, it just wasn't (at the time) a student card plus they had a bonus deal going on where you got 6,000 points if you spent $500 or so during the first 3 months and another 5,000 points if you went paperless or something like that. So I go online, and sign up for a nice green Citi Forward card...only the page timed out right in the middle of the submission process and gave an error...so I went back and did it all over again. About ten days later, I get two envelopes from Citibank, each one containing a brand new Citi Forward card with a different account number and a CL of $6,000. Of course I thought about cancelling the extra card, but then I realized how great it was for utilization and opted to keep both (as I was afraid they'd lower my limit if I tried to combine them... Fast forward 2.5 years and I still have both cards and the CL has nearly doubled on both ($11.9k and $11.4k) making them my two highest limit cards. The best part about accidentally getting the two cards at the same time is that because they were two separate accounts, I got the 11,000 point sign up bonus for both of them. Now with the conversion of the mtvU card, I'll have a third Forward in my stable.