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There are way more experienced people on here than me that will respond...my guess is, since you are an AU is most likely the difference. I put my daughter on 3 cards, all AU...her score is way higher than mine since she was able to cherry pick all the good stuff!...she is floating around 779 for all 3...I have never reached that in my life (yes a little jealous)
Someone else here might correct me if I am wrong.
You mention a difference in scores. Can you tell us whether you have tools for pulling your full reports as well?
I also note that you mention EX and EQ but fail to mention anything about TU. Why is that?
If you would, tell us where you are getting your scores from. And if you are pulling reports, tell us where you are getting those from too.
Sure CreditGuyInDixie,
I pull our reports annually from annual credit report.com. and then also get reports from credit karma and Monday I paid to get both sets (hubby and I) 3b reports from myfico.
Scores are from myfico. Purchased his and mine on Monday.
I didn't mention tu because our reports dont match for tu and that explains why our tu scores don't match. If that makes sense lol
I posted a more complete picture of our data points in my thread on Monday https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Understanding-FICO-Scoring/We-finally-have-credit-scores-data-point...
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EQ the difference between 2 and 3 inquiries is probably enough right there frankly; I know there was a breakpoint for me there, so not surprised by that.
The EX one though, the fact your EX FICO 2 is absolutely identical and your FICO 8 is not, suggests the AU might not be counted for you.
Now why you have a score if that tradeline is discounted I don't know, possible we don't quite understand how that works... but what I probably would do in the name of science would be pay off the Discover, let the reports update and keep the balance on the OSCU card basically the same, and then repull and look for score shifts.
I suspect though your files are both so new that changes might get lost in the noise... I wouldn't worry about it really, but as stated it's probably the AU.
AU's generally count the same in FICO 04 and before, FICO 8 has an anti-abuse algorithm in it and none of us really know for any given set of files if it gets counted or not when it comes to AU's... we just don't know what they're pattern matching on.
We had thought they either counted or didn't, and usually the way to try to sort that was with number of tradelines with balances (vis a vis 1 balance, 2 $0, with the balance being the AU, and then 1 balance, 2 $0 with the balance being a non-AU card and see if the scores are the same or different) but maybe you can still generate a FICO score with an AU but not have it counted for revolving utillization? AU's can be a bit strange and FICO 8 made them well stranger.
It won't matter long term as I suspect you both will probably thicken your file some, but it's interesting given that your files are basically identical on EX to see the score difference. I can't recall a similar data point honestly as comparing between users is nearly a non-starter but with everything either joint or AU, you're sort of an ideal test case haha.
@Revelate wrote:AU's generally count the same in FICO 04 and before, FICO 8 has an anti-abuse algorithm in it and none of us really know for any given set of files if it gets counted or not when it comes to AU's... we just don't know what they're pattern matching on.
We had thought they either counted or didn't, and usually the way to try to sort that was with number of tradelines with balances (vis a vis 1 balance, 2 $0, with the balance being the AU, and then 1 balance, 2 $0 with the balance being a non-AU card and see if the scores are the same or different) but maybe you can still generate a FICO score with an AU but not have it counted for revolving utillization? AU's can be a bit strange and FICO 8 made them well stranger.
It won't matter long term as I suspect you both will probably thicken your file some, but it's interesting given that your files are basically identical on EX to see the score difference. I can't recall a similar data point honestly as comparing between users is nearly a non-starter but with everything either joint or AU, you're sort of an ideal test case haha.
I'm happy to be the data point guinea pig. Lol
Our credit union should update in a few days to a zero balance so it will be interesting to see what that does.