What is a reasonable amount of inquiries on a credit report?

[dalebb]

i say get all ur app'ing done in a short period, if they dont count as 1, then they all fall off at the same time

[jclark1183]

The plan is to app for 2 cards at the same time.  My main concern is auto-rejection simply for too many inquiries even though my fico scores are all >740.  

[dalebb]

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@jclark1183 wrote:

The plan is to app for 2 cards at the same time.  My main concern is auto-rejection simply for too many inquiries even though my fico scores are all >740.  

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then just call them, they ask u a few questions, and all is good

[Duke-of-Earl]

Can you tell from the reports what purpose is coded?  You know what your purposes were, but don't assume the INQs are coded correctly.  Sometimes it's obvious, but I found all my mortgage refi INQs listed various third-party companies who pulled the scores for the lender.  And the purpose shown was just something generic like "credit application".