<p>I hate how I'm stumbling over such simplest questions.</p>
<p>When the college application ask you for your mother's name, do you type in her maiden name -that is she has the same last name as my father and me- or her full legal name, which uses her 'real' last name.</p>
<p>I know it doesn't matter for the admissions but its always those subtleties that may create problems.</p>