Wrong name on SAT?

<p>Hi. I took the SAT last Saturday.
When I made an account on collegeboard website, I put my name wrong, so my admission ticket had a wrong name. On my scantron, the proctor lady told me to put the same name as the one on my admission ticket because they have to match. Will there be any problem?
Thanks :)</p>

<p>One problem is that your file of scores at the College Board is now under the wrong name. So when your scores are sent to universities, the score report will have the incorrect name on it.</p>

<p>Additionally, you had to show some form of ID to take the SAT. That form of ID would have had your name on it. So it’s strange that the proctor would let you sign in despite this discrepancy. This also means the College Board might not find your story plausible.</p>

<p>Is this a mistake for which you can offer a reasonable explanation? For example, did you use a nickname as your first name instead of your legal name?</p>

<p>Was it a letter mistake or did you put a whole different name?</p>

<p>No. it just didn’t have a dash and single letter, but it sounds the same. </p>

<p>When I took the PSAT, I just wrote my legal name on the scantron, but I could see the result on the collegeboard site, which is under my wrong name.</p>

<p>The registration number is, as far as I know, the main identifier used to link student score(s) to CB account. As long as you bubbled the registration number correctly, you should be fine.</p>

<p>@314159265: But then the CB account itself will have the wrong name, at least if this is the OP’s first College Board test.</p>

<p>I just noticed these instructions regarding changing your name in the Update My Account section of the College Board website:</p>

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<p>The real name listed in the account can be corrected, as you posted above. But if the registration number is bubbled correctly, the scores should be linked to the proper account, regardless of real name (unless, of course, the name on the account is so incredibly different from the name on the test).</p>

<p>I have a question,my collegeboard account has only my first last name and so does my admission ticket for the SAT,but my ID card has my first and second last name meaning my full legal name.Will i still be let in the test center?</p>

hey ,i wrote my first name wrong on the last sat exam on march, 2016 . I mean my name was correct but in the admission ticket ,my first name had two words and there was no middle initial but i mistakenly just wrote the first word as my first name and wrote the second word as my middle initial .Is there any way i can fix this thing ,or save my exam result from being cancelled?

I am taking SAT subject test on Chinese this Saturday, which is two days apart. I have just realized yesterday that the name that I registered was NOT my legal name in my passport, but with my school name. I have called the Collegeboard, but they haven’t really answered my question, but just told me to change the date. Since I am taking the test at my school, the proctors say that they will let me take the test. However, the problem is that I may not be able to use that score for applying colleges because the names do not match.

Even after taking the test, would I be able to change my name?
The College Board told me to send a scanned passport to them, but how do I send it to them through if I am living outside of America? Do I send them through e-mail account?

Please I really need your help, please reply to me ASAP

When you wrote school name, did you mean the name of the school? I think you can ask them for the email address and fax number. When I talked to College Board, they asked me to fax but the issue was not related to name changes.

Not the name of the school, but the name that I use in my school. For example, if my legal name is Xi Min Qiang, the name that I use at school is Joanne Qiang.

Do I just send the scan of my passport and my student ID card to sat@info.collegeboard.org? Would that be enough evidence that both of the names are me? Can you tell me the fax number of Collegeboard?

Closing thread, but will answer your question. In the future, if you have a question, start a new discussion instead of reviving a 5 year old thread.

Scan as a pdf and send as an attachment.

Not a big deal; it happens all the time. It is not uncommon for someone with a Chinese first name to use an American name. Just contact the College Board.