Help! I've been using the WRONG SSN for years now!!!!

Colleges do not have the legal right to ask for your social security number as part of the application process --and you do not have to provide it to them. I would suggest that you just email all the colleges, tell them that you mistakenly gave them an erroneous social security number,and ask them to delete it from your file. Do NOT give them another – again, at this point they do not need it and it is mistake for you to provide it, for security reasons. (More than one school has had computers with student records compromised).

The financial aid office will have the numbers they need when the FAFSA is transmitted to them, and after you enroll in college, if you get a campus job or work-study – they will need the standard employment forms completed. But until then, you should not be giving that number out.

This would not be the right time to make a point that you think providing your SSN is an intrusion of privacy.

Go to the Social Security office closest to you, and request a new card.
You need 2 forms of ID(example : Passport+Drivers license)
and fill out a form: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/forms/ss-5.pdf)
They are typically open M-F 9a-3pm
Try to get some kind of receipt of your request from them.

Submit copies of the receipt, until you get your card, and then submit a copy of your card when you get it.