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Score just dropped 25 points

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Re: Score just dropped 25 points

Arkane: CFPB did a research white paper on comparing FICO credit scores to Vantage Score "educational" scores 5 years ago.  White paper PDF here: http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201209_Analysis_Differences_Consumer_Credit.pdf

 

If you're into data science and engineering, you can see quite a few places where Vantage Score bifurcates from FICO scoring -- and the generic comparison charts you posted don't differentiate between any two borrowers, they're just averages taken over millions of profiles.

 

The fact is that almost nobody here will see a 1:1 comparison between Vantage Score and FICO over their own timeline.  I help some folks charts their own comparisons over time, and the variation between the two scores is significant and rarely approaches even 0.8 over a year in terms of accuracy.  I've personally seen variations as high as 100 points, and in most cases the widest variation I'll witness over a period of 12 months for a person rebuilding is +/- 60 for 95% of folks tracking variations and +/- 40 for 100%.  That's too big of a variation to make it a useful metric to consider for creditworthiness purposes!

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Re: Score just dropped 25 points

Is there a way of knowing beforehand whether a specific loan would be CFA flagged?

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