MoneyTips Gift To College Grads: Your Credit Report
Congratulations! You've made it through college and are looking forward to using your new skills in the real world. Here's our gift to help you start your journey – a copy of your credit report.
If you aren't familiar with your credit report and how it works, now's the time to check it out.
Your credit report is a collection of all of your borrowing activities. Whenever you borrow money and make payments (or miss them), your creditors report that information to the three major credit reporting agencies (TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax). If you have part of America's nearly $1.5 trillion in student loans, your repayment record will show up here. Your future credit cards and loans will show up here, too.
The credit reporting agencies use your credit report information to calculate your credit score – a single number between 300 and 850 that tells creditors how risky it i...
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