I'm not sure if they ask for proof of enrollment for the Journey card. I got it so long ago, and I don't remember. I hear they generally accept people with little-no credit for the Quiksilver cards. In my opinion, taking a shot at your own card is better than becoming an AU on someone elses card.
Lol, no they don't hate you. I guess you just come off as a risk to them. Have you tried pulling up your credit report to see if one was possibly generated from something else? It doesn't really make sense why they would deny you for a secured card at that...
That is correct. Unless something else possibly generated one. Although highly unlikely, still possible. It just doesn't make much sense why they wouldn't approve you for a secured card.
As far as I know Discover has free FICO tracking. So I guess if that were the case it would have shown you it. So I guess you just have bad luck. 
@Marths wrote:As far as I know Discover has free FICO tracking. So I guess if that were the case it would have shown you it. So I guess you just have bad luck.
Correct. This is what Discover says.
We don’t have a FICO® Credit Score for you.
Thanks for your interest in learning your FICO® Credit Score. Reasons why you may not see your FICO® Credit Score include: if you opt out; if you have key information that is mismatched or missing, as one example, an address change that has not been updated with Discover or TransUnion; if your credit history is too new; if your account status is abandoned, bankrupt, fraud, lost or stolen, closed, revoked, or charged off; or if you have a foreign address.
@Anonymous wrote:A little background, i'm 20 years old with 2 credit cards at the moment I have a Kohls Charge with a 300$ Limit, and a secured Discover IT with a 200$ limit. I only have 3 months worth of credit history, so this question is for when I hit the 6 month mark and generate an actual FICO.
Should I add myself as an authorized user on one of my moms Capital One cards? she just got approved for it a few days ago and the limit is low, but i'm just looking for the biggest boost in my score possible in the next 3 months so I can maybe qualify for a card or 2 that I really want in june. Would adding a 3rd card to my credit report take my score down in the interim but benifit me in a few months?
OP, congratulations on getting started with your first cards.
I would suggest not worrying about adding AU, or even the utilization on your Discover $200 limit card.
Your CK scores are not reliable, they are FAKO. You said yourself you don't yet have a FICO, so you probably know this already 
If you can't get a secured CapOne (not clear from the earlier posts), no worries. If you can get a secured CapOne, do that now. Another option to consider is opening an account at PenFed, and getting their secured VISA card. I have one of those, got it because they denied me a regular CC, so building a payment history with them.
My experience with Discover is, they want you to use their card heavily, they like you to be using their card first, and they don't care if you charge up to $190 on this card, as long as you are paying in full. I say this because I've got a $5k limit, and have pushed that limit on this and a prior Discover card 3 separate times over the last few years, over 90% utilization with BT each time and large payments on that, and they keep coming back with more offers, including cash back for purchases, to get me to use the card.
Do not worry at all about the percentage utilzation on this $200 Discover card. Charge it to $190, pay it off, if it reports $190, do not worry at all. You are building a file. Your utilization will be sky high, but you won't really be hurt by that as long as you pay on time. Each month of good payment history will be gaining points in FICO so fast the utilization isn't going to be an issue. And every underwriter who looks at your file is going to realize $200 is nothing, that you can't avoid high utilization. No one is going to care that you are at $190 on a $200 limit, and after a few months, when it comes time to app for another card, after you've been using this Discover card for 7 or 8 months, app for another Discover, and you will probably find they respond with a higher limit card, with decent rewards categories like the Discover it.
And I don't know how firm that June target should be for the next app. See what your scores develop as, then decide. I really do think you will have good luck with Discover after a few more months.
Also, carefully review what the actual rewards payback amounts are, when applied to your actual spend categories. You may find that the annual amount, the annual difference in amount from a baseline 1%, is not all that great, not worth much of the effort we all spend trying to find the ideal rewards profile. When you look at a 2% card, for example, you have to consider that it's only a marginal 1%, since you can get 1% from any card anyhow.
Good luck!
