How do colleges know which SAT score is yours?

Applying to College
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I never thought of this until now but I’m super confused. I already sent my scores to one college (Rutgers) and they say they received it. But I just realized that there is no way (I don’t think) for them to link me on my application to my collegeboard account. Besides my name. But what if two people had the same name? I didn’t provide my SSN or anything either, and I used a different email for collegeboard than I am using for my applications. So how do they know which scores are mine? I’m not really worried, just kind of confused. Thanks.

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Your name, birthday, high school name, grade, and the fact that you asked them if they received are enough for them to make the assumption

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Remember many, many thousands of students each year and over decades have successfully applied to coleges., Considering the volume of applicants and number of schools successfully registered over decades and your confusion over this now suggests you are more anxious than you think. Relax! Your materials are in experienced hands. Applying to college works out and you will be fine.

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I guess that makes sense. I was just thinking, what if 2 people had the same name/same birthday/went to the same school and what not. Thanks for the encouraging post

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Remember many, many thousands of students each year and over decades have successfully applied to college. Considering the volume of applicants and number of schools, the only way to remain anonymous in admissions is not sending identifying information such as name, address, name of high school, birthrate, and so on. Even if materials were sent without identifying information, your things would probably be gathered in an anonymous file. You need to settle down because you are worried about something that is less than trivia. Admissions is sufficiently stressful without imaging problems.

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I used to work at a university - we used algorithms for matching, looking at name (including common nicknames), date of birth, SSN, email address, mailing address, high school attended, HS graduation date, etc.

My favorite was twins: same first and last names, middle name was different by one letter, same date of birth, same high school/anticipated graduation date, SSNs were different by one number. I coded them so they would not be picked up as a potential duplicate when we ran our queries.