<p>"A college student flew home to New York to impersonate high schoolers who paid him to take the SAT on their behalf, and even took the exam twice in one weekend under different identities, prosecutors said Tuesday.</p>
<p>Between 2010 and 2011, six students at Long Island's Great Neck North High School paid Sam Eshaghoff, 19, between $1,500 and $2,500 each to take the SAT for them, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said."</p>
<p>I have to believe that this kind of fraud happens more frequently than we think. The ease with which this guy pulled off the scam suggests others could do it, too. The only catch with physical impersonation is that it doesn’t scale very well. One “expert” can only take one test for one person at a time.</p>
<p>There are circumstances where Sunday tests are offered for religious reasons</p>
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<p>Somehow I thought the purchased scores would have been higher. I realize that those are very good scores, but still. I guess they were hoping that they wouldn’t be so high as to raise suspicion?</p>
<p>I agree with Roger. I have no doubt that ‘cheating’ occurs frequently, particularly since there is essentially no penalty; CB just cancels the scores. Re-take… Indeed, one of the big reasons that CB cancelled it’s prior Score Choice program was cheating. (Sign up for two ST’s, and spend ~2 hours taking one test and then cancel the other. Next test date, reverse.) And, I have no doubt that the No-Score-Choice colleges are trying to inhibit cheating.</p>
<p>When you put a disproportionate valuation on a standardized test instead of doing the hard work of evaluating the individual you will create a market for such services.</p>
<p>There’s a new show on USA called SUITS that has a main character who used to be paid by people to take their LSAT for them. The show is entertaining, this real life story certainly isn’t. My children work awfully hard to prepare for their PSAT and SAT test dates. It really bugs me that they allow the kids to sit for the test again for free. You’d nip this in the bud if you got caught and were red-flagged to not be able to take the test in the future.</p>
<p>It has always been suspected at my high school. When students signed up to take the SAT “out of town” (hm… no one will notice the id issue) and then got a really great score…we all knew what happened.</p>
<p>The people that proctor the SAT are not checking id’s the way you would think. So easy to cheat!</p>
<p>When I took the SATs, I went to a local high school to take them. The proctors (who were mostly teachers at that school looking to make some extra money) never checked my ID. I could easily had had someone else take it for me if I desired.</p>
<p>I’m surprised bail was set so low, considering he collected >$10,000 from these 7 HS students. Also surprised & disappointed that those kids could lay hands on $1500-2500 to pay this guy. Didn’t their families notice?</p>
<p>Sounds like he could also be charged with false IDs, which could be up to a felony, depending on where he committed each offense. Each of those charges could have their own penalties.</p>
<p>Back in the day when we took the bar exam, we never had to provide fingerprints.</p>