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New Lending Company Uses SAT Scores and GPAs To Give Loans To Recent Graduates

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Jul 29, 2015
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New lending company Upstart uses transcript data—like SAT scores and GPAs—to give loans to recent graduates with little credit history. Now, high-achieving Millennial graduates have a friendlier metric than a FICO credit score to help them secure a loan.

—The New York Times

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