At least 20 former New York high school students have been charged in an SAT cheating scandal that began in September with a handful of students, and has since grown.
In September, a college student was arrested and charged with taking the SAT for six other students. Earlier this month, the investigation expanded to include 35 students and the ACT, and now more arrests have been made:
Thirteen students from the Great Neck area, a cluster of Long Island communities with top-ranked schools that send virtually all their graduates to college, were implicated in the latest round of charges, filed Tuesday. Seven others were arrested in September.
Prosecutors said 15 high school students hired five other people for anywhere from $500 to $3,600 each to take the SAT or ACT for them. The impostors — all of them college students who attended Great Neck-area public and private high schools — fooled test administrators by showing up for the exams with phony ID.
“Honest, hardworking students are taking a back seat to the cheaters,” Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. “This is a system begging for security enhancements.”
Prosecutors actually suspect 40 students were involved in the cheating, but the two-year statute of limitation had expired for the others, Rice said.
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