<p>Well, I trust that a bigger organization is more likely to have policies and procedures in place to try and prevent identity theft than our little community organizations. I get a stack of 30-50 scholarship applications to review at home, and then they're rotated through another half-dozen people. I don't have any need to know the applicant's social security number or other financial data.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>And they added an "X" to the end of the SSN and called it a student number.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Well, that solves the problem!</p>