Raising your CL will help your utilization and encourage future creditors to give you a higher initial credit limit. So I'd say go for it. Beware that BofA may give you a hard pull, so if you're planning on applying for a new CC or loan soon, that'd be one more thing to take into account.
@NiNoMArksLA wrote:
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I wouldn't bother; BOFA has been pretty good about raising the CL's to above $600 (more like $1000) on the vast majority of graduations over the past year in similar situations to yours.
This is reinforced that you'll likely be able to graduate in 2/13; I increased my deposit from $2K to 5K with roughly 4 months to go, and they put my limit at $2500 at graduation so it won't necessarily make any difference (or much of one in my case) on your future CL. I'd do something else with the money in this case.
