Discover Secured Graduation?

[AllZero]

Congratulations on your graduation.

Discover and BoA are two good lenders that offer soft pull credit limit increases.

Good luck on your credit journey.

[Anonymous]

Grats on graduation! It has to feel great! You are moving up in the credit world now

[GApeachy]

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@Anonymous wrote:
First post at FICO, and I thought I should provide another DP for this mysterious process.

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Great reason for a "first post" there....congrats!  Thanks for sharing the dp's too.  

Also, 3 stmts. after I graduated I received a cli.  Good luck smashing that Luv button!

[AnimatorProcrastinator]

Congrats! Discover is a good card to have for the long run. Mine also unsecured shortly after Citi gave me a $2,500 unsecured card, which is also the amount Discover just *happened* to raise my CL to 😏

[mrfufoppss]

my 7th statement just cut on the 12th, i still havent unsecured oh well.

[Anonymous]

My 10th statement cut last week, still secured. I realize it's probably because I wasn't practicing AZEO... I would use the card, pay it off, and start using it again, but was never concerned about what balance was reported on the statement. This last statement I made sure it reported $0 but it's still secured. Hoping I'll have more luck next month on #11.

[failur3byh3art]

Hello Everyone! So in some people's experience would it be best to keep the balance at 0 as I paid it in full. Or should I carry a small balance? My statement cuts on the 26th.
Edit: my 7th statement cuts on the 26th. Forgot to mention that. Either I graduate or not I'm curious to know if holding a 0 balance helps

[KJinNC]

I haven't had my Discover card long enough for it to possibly become unsecured. I got mine in May. So, be aware I am not speaking with first-hand knowledge of this process.

That said, AZEO stands for "all zero except one." The concept is that if you have, say, three cards, you want two of them to report a $0 balance and the third one to report a small balance. This will provide a temporary bump to your score. This technique is mainly used when preparing to apply for something important, such as a mortgage.

I am skeptical that it would make much difference with a Discover card unsecuring. The boost it gives is fairly modest, and in any case, I think Discover will be as interested in your history with them as they will be in your FICO score.

Is there something else going on? Like recent derogs with other accounts? I ask because I occasionally see people say "my Discover card didn't unsecure after 7 statements" but rarely if ever do I see comprehensive datapoints along with that statement.

[Anonymous]

I was discharged from bk7 in oct 2018, but I got my secured discover after that in November. Since my bk I haven't had any lates or anything else, and my scores have only gone up since then. So, not sure what else it could be. My secured nfcu just graduated the other day at the 6th statement so hopefully discover will follow.

[RehabbingANDBlabbing]

@Panda800

While no one can claim to have figured out how Discover decides to upgrade cards, I am fairly confident that the recency of your BK is what the issue is. If yopu are paying on time and your scores are going, that definitely helps. I think most of my negative accounts had to hit the 2 year mark before my card unsecured. I still had high utilization, a few inquiries, and negative stuff reporting. I was using the card a lot, but they didn't graduate it until the 11th month. So I would not take it personally, you are probably up against a computer that has pre-programmed rules about negative items. That computer makes the decisions and is what is keeping you from graduating until you meet the criteria.