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Paid off student loans. Credit Score dropped 33 points. Why?

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Re: Paid off student loans. Credit Score dropped 33 points. Why?

This is terrible. I finally paid of my very olllllllllllllllllllllllld  student loand and my AAA went down almost 2 years which dropped my score 30 points.!  I do have a home loan and a lease...

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Re: Paid off student loans. Credit Score dropped 33 points. Why?


@Anonymous wrote:

This is terrible. I finally paid of my very olllllllllllllllllllllllld  student loand and my AAA went down almost 2 years which dropped my score 30 points.!  I do have a home loan and a lease...




@Anonymous- paying off the loan would not cause your age of accounts to drop, accounts generally stay on your credit report for up to 10 years after they were closed.   Was this drop FICO or a site like CreditKarma/Wallethub/nerdwallet?  What scoring algorithm do they use?

Some of the 'fluff' sites that peddle vantage score only use open accounts when giving metrics, but you can ignore those.

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