<p>Hey I recently started getting a stream of letters from colleges (the typical letters). However, each of these letters, on its sending address, has the same typo of my name in it. I'm pretty sure these colleges are sending me letters after seeing my SAT score, so does this mean that when I took the SAT, i wrote my name wrong somewhere?? What would that mean for my SAT score (my collegeboard account has the correct spelling of my name)</p>
<p>Call the collegeboard services and ask them what you can do to change your name.
Then, if the colleges still think that your name isn’t right, write back to the ones youre interested in and make sure you let them know about the name correction</p>
<p>If your Collegeboard account has your name spelled correctly, then I would look for other reasons why it’s off. Possibly, AMC, ACT, or AP Tests?
If you’ve been getting emails from the same colleges, it should say where they got the info (including the typo) at the end of the email.</p>
<p>You might have spelled it wrong on the PSAT (which is where a lot of mail comes from) or ACT</p>
<p>I actually had this same problem happen to me. When I first took the SAT, I bubbled in a ‘v’ instead of a ‘u’ in my last name (which is long, and thus harder to check with the bubbles, but I honestly have no other excuse except that I was nervous), and consequently, ALL my college mail came with the typo.</p>
<p>Here’s what I recommend:
- Check collegeboard and make sure they have your score from when you took the test (since you’re name is spelled right)
- Have you taken any other standardized tests recently (ACT or PSAT)? Check those as well…
- Call collegeboard to see if there was an internal issue.</p>
<p>It’s actually a huge detail - these colleges have you in their mailing list under a certain name. Either you start getting mail twice or you lose out on getting recognition from that school for demonstrating interest, etc. Good luck!</p>
<p>I registered S for the SAT, and accidentally put the initial for his older brother’s, not younger S’s middle name. Younger S tried to change it with the College Board, but they never changed it. IT didn’t matter. He still got into colleges, got merit aid, etc. Colleges never asked anything about it.</p>
<p>It won’t matter. since if and when you apply, hopefully YOU’LL write everything down correctly. That’s what will matter. Your soc security number will be your identifier for your test scores.</p>
<p>DD somehow managed to bubble in the wrong birthdate on her GRE form. She was living abroad while applying to grad schools, and I was doing a few clerical things for her here when we discovered it. I called ETS and they said to fax a copy of her driver’s license, which I did (had a copy of all her documents while she travels). DD also let her schools know what had happened (easier for grad school, since the volume of applicants is much lower). </p>
<p>ETS was supposed to re-send the reports to her schools, but I don’t believe they did–maybe one, as we got a new “report sent” letter for that one school. ETS never acknowledged that they received my fax, despite me asking and giving plenty of contact info.</p>
<p>DD was accepted to all of her schools, so it’s moot now, but sometimes I worry they’re going to think she is an impostor!</p>
<p>Agreed with Northstarmom.
My name was O V ____(my last name) from the CollegeBoard. My name is not two letters long. xD But only for my SAT scores? It didn’t really matter since I took the ACT and had the correct spelling and a better score 
Heheh.
Also, one of my colleges spelled my name Oliiva (my name is Olivia…) and it didn’t really matter since I’m not matriculating there…
Anyhow, no. In the end it does not matter and if you take the ACT many of your problems could be solved.
Tried to change my name with the CB…it never happened despite sending in my forms of identification twice by fax while on the line with the customer rep. :/</p>