Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote:
9. Not allowing special characters in personal names, e.g., 't Hooft. The customer knows better than you do how to spell his own name.
Most of the time, but it is amazing how many different spellings our admissions system sees. The student will spell it one way on the SAT, and another way on their application. It becomes quit a challenge to match up which test scores go with which applications. They try to use birth dates, addresses, SSN's, and any other info they have. Sometime they can't match them at all, and sometimes two students get combined. We have seen names spelled differently with different SSN's supplied, and different addresses that turn out to be the same person. -- Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
