Most credit cards would make it a prerequisite for applicants to have a credit history before their application can be approved. With this, students may find their choices of credit cards rather limited. However, the Citi Platinum Select Card for College Students is designed specially to meet the needs of students.
There are no annual [...]

Are you a concerned parent having a troubled time trying to decide whether or not to give your son or daughter the access to plastic money? Do you think perhaps son or daughter may not be able to manage their finance well? Well, you fears are not completely baseless. Plastic is a very important tool [...]

As a parent, you want your children to be very responsible once they head off to college. Whether they are attending a local university or they are attending a college one thousand miles away, you truly care for them. When you think about your child going off to college, you tend to worry [...]

You’re danged if you do, and you’re danged if you don’t.

At least that’s how it seems when it comes to college student credit cards. On the one hand, many young people seem to look at a credit card as a “free money” stream, having not broken out of the habit of living at home and [...]

High school credit cards — they’re a teenager’s dream come true and a mom and dad’s worst nightmare. Students beg for them, mom and run from them like they carry the plague. What has mom and pop so freaked out? If you want to have even half a hope of getting one of these coveted [...]

Even with the ready availability of a college student credit card, the majority of students going off to college these days do not have a clue how to handle financial responsibilities. When they needed money for something, they either asked their parents for it or they took it out of their savings from a [...]

A new and magical world opens up when a person hits his or her eighteenth birthday. Voting is just one of the many privileges extended to the new adult. There is also the ability to serve in the Armed Forces.

But nothing quite marks the end of childhood as leaving the comforts of high school [...]

The credit card game can be a dangerous one especially if you don’t know how to use your credit card properly. If you’re like a majority of the Americans in the United States, chances are that you carry a credit card. The sad thing about all these consumers that have a credit card is that [...]

Student credit cards can be a blessing or they can be a curse – it’s all up to you! Student cards are fantastic for making college purchases more convenient, making travel much easier, and for covering those emergency situations that just pop up from time to time. But if they’re not used responsibly, [...]

Its a fact. Trying to function in todays society without using credit is just impossible. Even if you are determined to keep your own personal involvement with the credit system to a minimum, it will search you out. This is because, more and more people and agencies, such as landlords and potential employers are using [...]