{"id":8224,"date":"2016-07-16T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2016-07-16T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T21:06:54","slug":"breakdown-of-fico-components-at-life-inflection-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/breakdown-of-fico-components-at-life-inflection-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakdown of FICO Components at Life Inflection Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a rule of thumb, life has basic inflection points. Graduation from high school.<\/div>\n<div>Establishment as an adult ~22.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Semi-maturity at 24-30.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This post will explain via pictures the breakdown of FICO. Traditional media has conveyed &#8220;it&#8217;s one pie chart for all ages at all stages of life&#8221;. &nbsp;This is not correct.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-22.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"38423D84-25E6-4676-8301-65FAFE509F24\"><\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/754409684304433152?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">7\/16\/16, 1:17 PM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>FICO percentages 100%, then 25% and upon maturity&#8230; 10% Subj *new credit* for 18-22 year olds starting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23vigins&amp;src=hash\">#vigins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oajUJX6mXh\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/oajUJX6mXh<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><b>inflection points<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i>Graduation from high school<\/i>: At 18 years old, you&#8217;re able to enter into contract and your social security number stands alone. This is what your FICO score looks like as a percentage breakdown.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image2-7.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"E53BBA65-1632-4D72-BFFC-12CEF2965B45\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">100% NEW CREDIT<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">A hard inquiry that results in a credit rejection establishes your zero for 1 (0 for 1). In baseball parlance, you&#8217;re batting .000. So&nbsp;100% NEW CREDIT is zero.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">inflection point:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i>Establishment as an adult ~22 years old<\/i>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image3-2.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" id=\"0253D9FB-BBF7-41FA-8FA1-419DA9413216\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">25% new credit.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">** inflection point **<\/b><\/div>\n<p><i style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Semi-maturity at 24-30<\/i><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image4.jpg\" alt=\"image4.JPG\" id=\"30FAC06B-70E3-4D0A-82B4-1D109CC293CE\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>10% NEW CREDIT<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Solution: build your FICO and startup your credit score without a hard inquiry. Start by getting approved for credit with a &#8220;<i><b>consumer inquiry<\/b><\/i>&#8221; by walking into a bank with your three credit reports.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">This site is targeted at future college grads and young professionals. It contains user contributed content, and material that may be confusing to a lay audience.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang As a rule of thumb, life has basic inflection points. Graduation from high school. Establishment as an adult ~22.&nbsp; Semi-maturity at 24-30.&nbsp; This post will explain via pictures the breakdown of FICO. Traditional media has conveyed &#8220;it&#8217;s one pie chart for all ages at all stages of life&#8221;. &nbsp;This is not correct.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}