An enterprising college freshman has made a good day’s wage taking the SAT for disinterested high school students. Six students from Great Neck, NY, are charged with cheating on the SAT - paying a college student to take the test for them. More arrests are likely as the investigation widens to other high schools.
The arrests have me wondering:
I wonder where these high school students earned $1,500-2,500 to pay the test-taker. Most gifts for high schoolers are gift cards. Did these students ask grandma for cash instead? Did they have jobs that supplied the income? Did their parents knowingly give the money?
I wonder what these students thought they would do when they entered their first choice college on a falsified record. Apparently they did not expect rigorous requirements, or maybe they planned to pay someone else to take their exams and write their papers for the next four years.
What do you think?
