Middle Name, Middle Initial, or none?

Applying to College
1

<p>For the purposes of this post, I'll call myself Billiam Tedward Bailey
On my Collegeboard.com Update Personal Information page, my name is listed as Billiam T Bailey.</p>

<p>Whenever I navigate any Collegeboard.com page other than my Personal Information page, the box on the right with my name and email says Billiam Bailey, sans the Tedward. </p>

<p>When I click on View My Score Report--> Print Score Report, the name there is also just Billiam Bailey.</p>

<p>When I apply to colleges, should I use the name Billiam T Bailey, Billiam Tedward Bailey, or Billiam Bailey? My inkling is to only use my first and last name, but does anybody know for sure?</p>

2

<p>Doesn’t matter. However choose the way you like to be listed and use this from now on in every legal transaction you do including signing your name for consistency.</p>

3

<p>I don’t think a middle initial will make a difference.</p>

4

<p>If you have an uncommon name (ie if your name really was Billiam Bailey) then it won’t matter much. But if your name is Tom Brown, there is a slight chance of mix-up if you do not include your middle initial. The althernative route, which is what I would do, is to include your social security number on everything. That solves everything.</p>