<p>ok so it turns out that I entered the incorrect Social Security Number on the Common App (accidentally entered my mother's). This explains why the first two colleges I sent my scores to didn't match up. However, I contacted the testing agencies and now the SSN is consistent for the Common App and both testing agencies. The only problem is, it's not mine! It's my mom's! How big of a problem is this? Since the info is consistent enough to complete the application, is it worth calling all 14 schools I'm applying to? I feel like I may be better off cutting my losses than having to call all 14 schools and both testing agencies multiple times. Thoughts and opinions?</p>
<p>This is a pretty significant problem. If you get scholarship money from a college, you get a tax form with your SSN on it. And the FAFSA and Profile both have SSNs on them if you are applying for financial aid. I would do whatever you have to do to fix this. It seems like you need to work with the testing agencies and the schools where you have already submitted apps to. I suspect an email to the schools where the apps are already submitted will do the trick. Give them the incorrect number, the correct number, and let them know your scores have also been reported with the incorrect number. Tell them you are working with the testing agency to correct the number, but it is not done yet. Hopefully that will allow them to match up the scores, and hopefully they will not make you pay to report the scores again once you fix the number at the testing agency.</p>
<p>For the remaining colleges where you have not submitted apps yet, create a copy of the common app (there are directions out there on how to do that) and change it. Make sure you change the supplements as well. I have to say, I think the hardest place to change it is the FAFSA – one year I fat fingered D1’s SSN, and it was a major pain to change it. So hopefully you have not done that yet!</p>