Does your university use your SS# as your student number?

[aphex]

Just got an email that our school (University of Florida) switched finally and now we have a seperate student number, not just our Social Security number... Our SS#'s will be phased out by the end of Jan.

What does your school use?

 

[Vadatajs]

My old school in New Hampshire did (PSC), but Eastern Michigan University doesn't.

 

[ROTC1983]

They do for certain things that only "YOU" have access too. Other things use a name you came up with for security measures.

 

[Aves]

We have the option of using the SS or something different.

 

[Darien]

Yeah, SS#...they also gave me another ID#, but I never used that yet.

 

[pillage2001]

For some reason, they do.

 

[Evadman]

And the gov said that Ss #'s would never be used for Identification

 

[Maverick]

yup mine did (University of Colorado)

 

[Reliant]

My school used our SS# last year but this year we have a new number that I can't ever remember.

 

[Hammer]

UT did

 

[MajesticMoose]

yeah, mine does. too lazy to change to something else i guess

 

[hdeck]

UT uses stuff to verify your ID sometimes, but it's not as if they make it public access.

 

[BlackF1Fiddy]

Yeah, we use ssn also.

 

[nord1899]

Virginia Tech did while I was there (96-00).

 

[fizmeister]

We don't. We get a unique 7 digit ID number. I haven't ever used my SSN# here (Rice University), so it's cool.

 

[DnetMHZ]

When I was in school they actually used your SS# as your email address

 

[Jugernot]

Yes, and we always get those people that yell about "It's illegal to make our SSN a unique identifier!" and I just have to laugh. These are the same people who yell about we never walked on the moon.

 

[UNCjigga]

They used to, but then it became ILLEGAL so now we have PID numbers (UNC Chapel Hill.)

 

[wjones]

Originally posted by: dnetmhz
When I was in school they actually used your SS# as your email address

It is a good way to publish your SS#

Or maybe the school thinks this is the point of email:
A: "What's your email address"
B: "What?!? You want to steal my identity?"
A: "Huh?"
B: "Don't pretend! I will never give out my email address to anyone!!!"

 

[Lars]

No.

 

[Deeko]

We have a student ID at Drexel, but if you don't know it (which I don't), it can be substituted by your SSN.

 

[brtspears2]

No, but I cant remember my university ID, so I end up using the SSN anyways.