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What exactly is enhanced in a credit card - enhanced FICO score?

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What exactly is enhanced in a credit card - enhanced FICO score?

The Equifax scores credit card lenders give me have been consistently higher than my Equifax ScoreWatch (Beacon 5.0) scores. I'd love to be able to predict my credit card - enhanced score for future applications. Any input would be appreciated. 

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guiness56
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Re: What exactly is enhanced in a credit card - enhanced FICO score?

When it is an enhanced score, auto or bankcard, those types of accounts are weighted more heavily than they normally would be with a regular score.  How they do that I don't think anyone can tell you.  And as usual, your entire credit profile is dependent on the outcome.

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Re: What exactly is enhanced in a credit card - enhanced FICO score?

So if you don't have an auto loan but do have credit cards and mortgages, how would your auto-enhanced score differ from the base score? 

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guiness56
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Re: What exactly is enhanced in a credit card - enhanced FICO score?

They would probably score you lower for never having had an auto loan.  Same with a CC enhanced score.

 

A rejection reason could be insufficient auto trade experience.  Of course, again, YMMV.

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thom02099
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Re: What exactly is enhanced in a credit card - enhanced FICO score?


@guiness56 wrote:

When it is an enhanced score, auto or bankcard, those types of accounts are weighted more heavily than they normally would be with a regular score.  How they do that I don't think anyone can tell you.  And as usual, your entire credit profile is dependent on the outcome.


OR.....rather than "enhanced", it could simply be the difference between the Beacon 5.0 here and the Beacon 9.0 that lender may have pulled.

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guiness56
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Re: What exactly is enhanced in a credit card - enhanced FICO score?


@thom02099 wrote:

@guiness56 wrote:

When it is an enhanced score, auto or bankcard, those types of accounts are weighted more heavily than they normally would be with a regular score.  How they do that I don't think anyone can tell you.  And as usual, your entire credit profile is dependent on the outcome.


OR.....rather than "enhanced", it could simply be the difference between the Beacon 5.0 here and the Beacon 9.0 that lender may have pulled.


True.  But the question was specifically about enhanced scores, not the differences between Beacon 5 and 9.

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