GRADUATION ISSUE
University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1984
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Seniors get diplomas, credit-card forms
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
Along with the graduation cards seniors receive in the mail, the mailboxes of many seniors are also on the company's website and all-company credit card applications.
Getting credit applications in the mail, some with long detailed forms to fill out and others that require on a line of their own. The long years of college are almost over
But some seniors don't take seriously the invitation to have instant credit.
"I HAD GOTTEN a couple of them and threw them away, but now I wish I hadn't," Andrea Catanzaro, St. Louis senior, said recently.
sent, so she received
Catanzaro said she didn't think
companies would have given her credit because she didn't have a job.
But when her friends who had filled out applications started getting credit cards in the mail, she said she was sorry that she hadn't also filled out applications.
Gwen Tracy, Chicago senior, also received applications in the mail.
"I filled them out," she said, "I knew I'd get the gas cards."
Tracy said that she had heard that oil companies would send out credit cards even to students who didn't have jobs yet.
Tracy said that she had received credit card applications from Phillips Petroleum Company, Amoco Oil Company, Sears Roebuck and Co., Mont
gomery Ward Department Store and American Express.
"I'm excited about the gas cards because I can travel for awhile," she said. But Tracy also said that she is not anxious to start getting the monthly bills that you have with having credit cards.
Ken Morgan, the retail credit center manager for Conoco Inc. in Ponca City, Okla., said Conoco's application forms require only students' signatures for a credit card to be sent to them.
EVEN TOUGH SENIORS are not asked to fill out a credit application with a credit history, Morgan said, the company has not had many bad experiences with its customers.
It has worked out pretty well over
the years," Morgan said. Conoco reports its customers' credit records, good or basis, to credit bureau on a monthly basis. Therefore, if people don't pay their bills, their credit records will show it.
Conco has found college graduates a good risk, he said.
Other companies, such as American Express, require either a co-signer or the promise of a job with a set salary.
Tracy said she didn't bother to fill out the application she got from American Express because she didn't have a job yet.
All companies that Tracy sent applications to didn't send her cards, she said. Some companies turned her down because she didn't have a job.
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