<p>I was wondering if [some/most] colleges allow students to get an education under an alias instead of the registered, legal name. Like in highschool, I mean. Where I am called by my alias, filed under my alias but when I first first first registered it was under my legal name. </p>
<p>Strange question. :D</p>
<p>out of curiosity, what's your alias? i know this doesn't answer your question, i'm just curious.</p>
<p>Hahaha. I know it seems like I have some mysterious name but it's just the name that my parents gave me knowing they'd move to the states very soon. But of course they couldn't change my name because I was already born in Korea.</p>
<p>My name's Jo[anna] as the username suggests.</p>
<p>All of your records will more than likely be filed under your legal name, so if you have to transfer, go on the grad school, etc., they can easily find your file instead of thinking "What was that kid's preferred name?" </p>
<p>If you're in a small class where the prof knows everyone's name, when they go over things the first day mentioned that you would like to be called Jo or Joanna. It's like a friend of mine named "Tyler Jack" who goes by "T.J." but his records are filed as Tyler Jack. All of his profs call him T.J., most don't even know his name is Tyler.</p>
<p>I hope that made a little bit of sense at least....or I could be totally off on what you're asking.</p>
<p>I usually go by a shorter version of my legal name, and I have since I started school way back in elementary school. Whenever I have to fill out an official document or put my name on a scantron test, I have to use my full legal name. However, my student ID and university email address use the shortened form that I go by, and of course... in any small classes I tell the teacher to call me by that as well.</p>
<p>I've been called/used a shortened version of my name since birth. I use the full version for important/official stuff, and the shortened version for everything else. I tried letting my profs use the full version my freshman year, but I've been using the shortened version in all of my classes since then. The full version is too long to fit on a scantron, so it really does make it a lot easier.</p>
<p>Same here GoldShadow. I have gone by a shortened version of my legal first name since before I can remember. In my small spanish class of 13 people, I tell my teacher what I go by. In larger classes, I don't bother because I'm not a big class talker anyway. IMO, it's enough to ask a prof to remember any form of your right name, let alone a preferrred name. It's not like in HS where you have the same teacher for a class all year and you have that class Mon-Fri. I do the same for my last name; it's commonly misspelled and mispronounced and because I won't have any prof for an extended amount of time, I don't waste my time and energy correcting them (or anyone).</p>
<p>Does anyone else with names that are often misspellled and mispronounced feel that way, like you're just giving up on correcting people because your exhausted from doing it for nearly 20 years? I know I'm there, lol! :)</p>
<p>A shortened version of your actual name is hardly an alias.</p>
<p>I go by superstudent 66 in class</p>
<p>My boyfriend's social security card & driver's license both have his name spelled "Sergej" instead of Sergei, but when I look him up in the school directory it's Sergei. So, somehow the school let him go by the correct spelling despite the fact that he has no legal form of identification with that spelling. It might work similarly if you have an alias name?</p>
<p>Thanks guys. That does help. (:</p>
<p>And to clear up any confusion. My alias is my "American" name and my legal name is Korean.</p>
<p>I got a good story: My dad's birthday on his driver's license (the one he celebrates) and the one on his social security card are different by a day (Dec 24 vs Dec 23) - because he was actually born on XMas eve, the local small-town doctor was at the big town party, and he was delivered by a nurse who in my opinion was <em>probably</em> drunk - and, they didn't write it down until the next day. So it got mixed up. So when he went to get his license renewed he had to go through all this stuff to prove that he actually existed.</p>
<p>I have a Korean name (Jee Yoon) my dad even spelled it (i really would've prefered Jiyoon dammit) horribly but I stuck with it... It's not that bad.. hm. I used an alias in elementary/middle/high school that my dad also gave me (which I didn't like) I wish i had a easier name too when people call me June (I hate that name... I go by Jee sometimes now) lol good luck</p>