She should have no problem at least applyiing for the Discover it student card - I mean it was pretty much designed for students who are starting out on their credit journey. Speaking of that, there's a "Journey" card offered by C1 but it's not the best and it has no intro 0% APR period either.
@Anonymous wrote:
With empty CR's I was denied the Cap1 student card. If she wants 0% already I'd be concerned about how she plans to use the card...
I'd recommend going the Discover secured route. That's what I did, and look at my siggy now haha.
What Grasshopper said.
As a beginner, 0% APR is the last thing your friend should be looking for. She should be developing good credit habits. That's not making a monster purchase and then paying it off over time, no matter how worthy. That's a use of credit, but not the best use, and she should be going for best use. Making a monster purchase and paying it off over time results in something called high utilization until the very end of the payoff, and is very harmful to her credit score.
A good scenario for her might be to put textbooks she needs today on the card while the Bursar's office slowly cuts the financial aid check that she won't get for another couple of weeks. A purchase she can pay off in full before she starts to run up interest charges.
For the day to day, she should have a budget for lattes, for example. Something very modest that happens every month. Every month she can recharge her Starbucks card with her budgeted amount using the credit card, and then pay it off.
In a few months time, she'll have the kind of credit score where she might well qualify for a 0% introductory rate. Hopefully she'll know by then not to use it except in a true emergency. 
@BurgeoningHope wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
With empty CR's I was denied the Cap1 student card. If she wants 0% already I'd be concerned about how she plans to use the card...
I'd recommend going the Discover secured route. That's what I did, and look at my siggy now haha.What Grasshopper said.
As a beginner, 0% APR is the last thing your friend should be looking for. She should be developing good credit habits. That's not making a monster purchase and then paying it off over time, no matter how worthy. That's a use of credit, but not the best use, and she should be going for best use. Making a monster purchase and paying it off over time results in something called high utilization until the very end of the payoff, and is very harmful to her credit score.
A good scenario for her might be to put textbooks she needs today on the card while the Bursar's office slowly cuts the financial aid check that she won't get for another couple of weeks. A purchase she can pay off in full before she starts to run up interest charges.
For the day to day, she should have a budget for lattes, for example. Something very modest that happens every month. Every month she can recharge her Starbucks card with her budgeted amount using the credit card, and then pay it off.
In a few months time, she'll have the kind of credit score where she might well qualify for a 0% introductory rate. Hopefully she'll know by then not to use it except in a true emergency.
+100. FTR I got my FU after only 6 months at the Disco and it came with 15 months 0%. Not that I've taken advantage of it even one cycle though...