Indeed. Seattle’s public schools, for instance, took the new SAT on Wed. 2nd, before everyone else took it on Sat. 5th. Maybe the entirety of Seattle’s 11th-graders pinky promised not to breathe a word about the test, but it’s hard to understand the CB’s thought process. They’ve brought the same methodology that failed utterly for international SAT sittings (some students take the test well before others, and prep companies can find out which questions are being used) back to the US.
The cynical way to look at this entire issue is to say Asia is a massive market for the SAT, and if it weren’t possible to cheat on the test, more students might take the ACT (currently they lean strongly towards the SAT).