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I am always interested to hear about aggressive credit card marketing to college students. When I turned 18, I was eager to build credit; but found it very difficult to obtain a credit card specifically due to a lack of a credit history despite my college student status and full-time job on the side.

Ian of FL 2:16PM April 02, 2008

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