Nice offer! To answer your question about backdating, if your mom is only now just adding you as an AU, your MSD would be 4/2014 anyway. AUs do not backdate to the primary cardholder's MSD. So you wouldn't really gain anything by waiting to become her AU and have it post to your reports. You might as well just go for this offer if this is the card you desire from Amex. Good luck! 
@CribDuchess wrote:Nice offer! To answer your question about backdating, if your mom is only now just adding you as an AU, your MSD would be 4/2014 anyway. AUs do not backdate to the primary cardholder's MSD. So you wouldn't really gain anything by waiting to become her AU and have it post to your reports. You might as well just go for this offer if this is the card you desire from Amex. Good luck!
That makes sense. I have neglected to read a lot about amex to begin with because i was fairly bitter they denied me like three times before now .
thank you for the response.
I BELIEVE this card is better than BCE if i use points for travel (by better i mean better value).
I don't spend enough to warrant preferred on either card.
Thanks <3 this forum.
@zyzzus wrote:
@CribDuchess wrote:Nice offer! To answer your question about backdating, if your mom is only now just adding you as an AU, your MSD would be 4/2014 anyway. AUs do not backdate to the primary cardholder's MSD. So you wouldn't really gain anything by waiting to become her AU and have it post to your reports. You might as well just go for this offer if this is the card you desire from Amex. Good luck!
That makes sense. I have neglected to read a lot about amex to begin with because i was fairly bitter they denied me like three times before now .
thank you for the response.
I BELIEVE this card is better than BCE if i use points for travel (by better i mean better value).
I don't spend enough to warrant preferred on either card.
Thanks <3 this forum.
Given your other cards, it really all comes to down to how you would MR. Clearly, BCE has little to no value for you (Sallie Mae does better on the main spend, and they are each 1% on the other stuff). But the Fidelity Amex is going to be accepted whereever the Everday is, so you have to value 1.2MR (assuming you can do 20 per month) higher than 2% cash back, and 2.4MR higher than the Sallie Mae 5% etc.
But if you just want a starter Amex, I would go for the Everyday because it has the potential to have value, and the BCE just doesn't!
@longtimelurker wrote:
@zyzzus wrote:
@CribDuchess wrote:Nice offer! To answer your question about backdating, if your mom is only now just adding you as an AU, your MSD would be 4/2014 anyway. AUs do not backdate to the primary cardholder's MSD. So you wouldn't really gain anything by waiting to become her AU and have it post to your reports. You might as well just go for this offer if this is the card you desire from Amex. Good luck!
That makes sense. I have neglected to read a lot about amex to begin with because i was fairly bitter they denied me like three times before now .
thank you for the response.
I BELIEVE this card is better than BCE if i use points for travel (by better i mean better value).
I don't spend enough to warrant preferred on either card.
Thanks <3 this forum.
Given your other cards, it really all comes to down to how you would MR. Clearly, BCE has little to no value for you (Sallie Mae does better on the main spend, and they are each 1% on the other stuff). But the Fidelity Amex is going to be accepted whereever the Everday is, so you have to value 1.2MR (assuming you can do 20 per month) higher than 2% cash back, and 2.4MR higher than the Sallie Mae 5% etc.
But if you just want a starter Amex, I would go for the Everyday because it has the potential to have value, and the BCE just doesn't!
Yeah... I've set myself up for cashback because its really easily quantfiable for me but I'd really like to get in with Amex just to finally say I have.
I need to see how MR can be redeemed.... thanks lurker
@injustifiiable wrote:My mom got this same offer. She got approved and the cards in the mail. Yay her. lol.
Heh, Amex continued their lackluster tradition with me: There was an EDP offer in my mailbox, and yet it was addressed to someone else entirely. Three different offers now to two different people, neither of which me at an address I've had for 9 years.
Promotional mailings! 
@zyzzus wrote:
My mother opened BCE last year. If I get added as AU before being approved for this I get to backdate?
I have experian on ice... I'll need to thaw correct? From the small amount of reading I've done this card trumps bce as long as I use points to travel?
I have a lot of cards reporting balances right now and just paid off an auto loan. Going to let these payments report have one card show a balance and give it one final whirl. If they deny me again I'll give up lol
Zyzzus, did you decide to apply?