<p>So apparently my SSN appears on all my teacher rec forms. Hmm....</p>
<p>Do you guys leave it on your forms or print copies without it for your teachers?</p>
<p>It seems kind of odd to me that they put your SSN on the teacher rec forms.</p>
<p>ill bump this...its interesting</p>
<p>i dont really care if my teachers see my ssn. they already have an identity; they dont need mine.</p>
<p>Agreed -- I trust my teachers enough to leave my SSN on there. I wouldn't have do it if I was giving the form to someone I didn't know, but truth be told, if I trust you enough as my advocate to try and get me into the school I want, I think I can trust you with my SSN.</p>
<p>Most college admissions use your SSN to file your application documents as it is unique. Thus you would want your SSN to appear on all relevant documents including your teacher recs.</p>
<p>Most college admissions do use your SSN. Some colleges are getting away from that practice due to security/privacy concerns. But there is an argument for using your SSN. Many years ago, I went to the doctor at a large medical facility where I was an employee of a well known Ivy. The nurse looked at me and said, "you're not 40". Turns out they had another patient with my same name and the paperwork between our two files was interchanged. Some of mine in hers and vice versa. They had to go by age and medical conditions to figure out which was which and they flag them with our SSNs.<br>
There are more people out there with your same name than you think.</p>
<p>My d left her SSN off her teacher recommendation forms; she included her name, birthdate, address and school name. Colleges had no problem filing them for her.</p>
<p>Did she also leave her SSN out of her SAT registration too?</p>
<p>I think she did leave her SSN off, but I'm not sure (and sorry for the delay - we were at Parent's Weekend!)</p>
<p>She is taking a chance then (albeit a rather small chance) that her SAT scores might be misfiled by admissions. It's a reasonable risk to take if she's really concerned about identity theft.</p>
<p>GoBlue, thanks for the warning - but my d is already in college, and all her schools got and filed her scores properly.</p>
<p>When she was applying, I spoke to several of the schools, who said that having name, DOB, address & name of school would generally be sufficient to distinguish students from each other, and that they arrange their files alphabetically by last name, not by SSN.</p>
<p>So I think it's less of a risk of misfiling than it is for identity theft. (I also wanted my d to get used to the idea of leaving her SSN off documents, even if a form has a spot for it.)</p>