<p>@jd Well, if you really… think this one person is worth the time and effort, go for it.</p>
<p>Report him. It’s not just YOU that he cut in front of in the admissions process; it’s every single other applicant that he is potentially cheating out of a spot. It’d be weak of you not to report him.</p>
<p>Don’t report him; no one wants to be a rat. Since you’re both out of the top 10, and, based on your description of him, he isn’t a star pupil by any stretch of the imagination, admissions officers will see a huge discrepancy between his scores and his GPA.</p>
<p>Paranoia alert.</p>
<p>Anyway it’s too late to report it.</p>
<p>@smorgasbord-The SAT is used so admissions can tell if a student is prepared for college. Different schools have different standards of administering grades. Therefore, it is entirely possible for a kid with 2380 score to have mostly B’s. Some schools are extremely challenging. If the college doesn’t know the school that well, and if said student spins it so it seems to be in the situation as I stated in the last couple of sentences, this could seem to be a VERY positive thing.</p>
<p>Additionally, it’s not about being a rat. It is about having pride in yourself and your work. Doing nothing about it means you are accepting it. At the very least, confront him about it. Also, University of Texas-Austin has an honor code. From experience, colleges in general, especially schools with honor codes, have very little to zero tolerance for academic dishonesty.</p>
<p>Unless you were in the room with him and physically saw him cheating, your argument holds absolutely no bearing. </p>
<p>It’s all hearsay anyway. Kids say anything to make themselves appear cooler and daring to their buddies. People start rumors like that all the time, either about themselves (to make it look like their genius’s for gaming the system) or others (trying to detract from their achievements). </p>
<p>I highly doubt that anybody taking the SAT can copy an answer sheet without being caught. It’s common knowledge that schools administering the SAT are required the set tables further apart, so it’s not a common classroom setting where you can look directly to your left/right. Students are placed at least a two desk apart, so spotting gridded answers on the answer sheet is almost impossible. The risk of one misbubble can ruin a whole section. There are many ways to cheat on the SAT (peaking at the prompt, pocket dictionary, text, going back to previous sections, etc.), but copying an answer sheet off some kid 6 feet away from you is a highly improbable one. </p>
<p>I highly doubt anyone can copy tiny bubbles on a sheet 6 feet away for every MC on the SAT. Even if you had time to prepare, I doubt anyone with even 20/20 eyesight can spot check every bubble on the sheet and not make a mistake or get caught for staring too long. Considering he would have had to do it on the fly, I doubt there’s anything to this story besides him trying to gain some brownie points with you by trying to make himself look like a cool slacker who got a high SAT school.</p>
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<p>Since the OP is in-state and goes to “an extremely competitive high school”, UT would have seen thousands of applicants from his school over the years, allowing a certain familiarity. Since the school ranks, the school report – which the counselor would send – would contain a GPA percentage breakdown of some sort (i.e. 20% of students have a 3.0, etc).</p>
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<p>I was thinking that this might be the case as well.</p>
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Or not wanting to make his friend feel bad about differences in scores.</p>
<p>As I said, if he got a 2380, and the kid next to him got a 2400, there likely would have been a big College Board investigation, suspension of scores, etc.</p>
<p>^ Not always.</p>
<p>March SAT. I sat in front of my friend who scored a 240 - perfect score on her PSATs. No chance that she would even dare look at my answers.</p>
<p>We both scored a 2340. Seriously. Exact same scores. Not lying, cross my heart. I will give you her facebook so you can ask her (not really. But maybe)</p>
<p>Besides the part that she might be my doppelganger because of eerie similarities we have (same initials, siblings have same initials, mothers’ maiden names are same, same last names, slightly similar interests), neither of us were investigated. So maybe whether a test is investigated is based on whether the proctor writes a note? I’m not sure. I guess whether a test is investigated depends a) per day and b) per situation.</p>
<p>Tenors, that’s insanely creepy.</p>
<p>College board doesn’t know where you sat in the room…</p>
<p>Yes they do. Seating charts.</p>
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I presume you had different test forms, thus making an investigation unnecessary.</p>
<p>Collegeboard does not have seating charts. </p>
<p>Students are seated due to the discretion of the administrators at the testing location.</p>
<p>If he got 780 on the essay without cheating, it may be that he didn’t cheat on the other parts of the exam.</p>
<p>If he got an 800 CR, 800 math, and 650 writing, your suspicion about cheating may be better founded.</p>
<p>He would have to have very good eyesight to copy all the exam answers.</p>
<p>The gpa/class rank and SAT disparity should be fairly obvious.</p>
<p>It would be very diffucult to copy all those ovals. I think he was messing with you. Forget about it and focus on your upcoming test.</p>
<p>^parents above, depending on the placement of desks, it’s rather easy to copy ovals. Also, many proctors are distracted and/or even leave the room at times…it’s not too difficult if the person next to you has the same exact test as you. The OP has enough evidence to suggest that he copied the scores.</p>
<p>If you have proof or know some people close to them who might have seen something, pursue it. Otherwise, he was probably just bragging that he managed to cheat on the SAT (when he probably didn’t.)</p>
<p>Seriously. What idiot would brag about cheating on the SAT? It’s like a criminal bragging about murdering someone (even though he didn’t).</p>