taking someones SATs for them, for a fee

[canis582]

I'd offer to do them for $5,000 saying the risk involved and your expertise makes it worth so much. He may say yes; if he says its too much, I would try to negotiate, but not go down further than 2.5K.

[kurosh]

I was going to do this for someone. It's pretty simple. Get a fake ID. Take it at another district where there is no chance of anyone recognizing you or who he should be. Collect lots of money.

[LordBP]

I certainly wouldn't suggest this. I just took the SAT <a month ago and this is some serious measures in place to prevent crap like this. Unless you can get a perfect fake, I wouldn't try it and I doubt I would anyways.
First you have to sign in and present ID. Then you go to a room and have to present ID again. Then you have to leave your ID on your table the entire test. Also you have to sign that you certify that you are the person on the test. Then there is a handwriting section that you have to write a paragraph in cursive to state that you are the one taking the test and that you haven't cheated and such. Plus the whole writing section where you get exactly what you wrote back with your scores. So it would be impossible for him to show anyone he knew his essay.
I don't know if they match these up against anything or what but it wouldn't be hard to get caught.

[BeerMoney]

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Good point. I kind've assumed the parents were in on it. Not sure why...

But I mean, this is quite a caper then eh? This girl must have be retarded and she's gonna get a 2350 or something?

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if you study and tutor enough for the test you can do very well. surprisingly well. i am not worried about that element. this has reached caper status.

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One thing I just thought of.. His own school would be most skeptical of his scores.. All the buzz would be.. "Hey, did you hear so and so.." But that's not really your concern though.

[Paluka]

I think this is super scummy and would not do it for any amount of money.

[Vavavoom]

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I think this is super scummy and would do it for any amount of money over £10000

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Sorry - I've sold my soul to the devil !

i saw a study where the avg grade at ivy league schools is extremely high. once you get in is harder to fail out than other places.
maybe is because the students are initially smarter but not necessarily

[schwza]

- you will help this person get into a much better school.

- this person will probably make many 10's of thousands of dollars over the course of their lifetime because of it.

- you are going to be at some risk. i don't really know, but i would've guessed it'd be fraud.

- if you're actually going to study, it will eat up some time.

i think an 8k flat fee would be around right.

let me take a stab: the fake ID is not a worry because it's your brother?

[Paluka]

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i saw a study where the avg grade at ivy league schools is extremely high. once you get in is harder to fail out than other places.
maybe is because the students are initially smarter but not necessarily

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Grade inflation is pretty outrageous at some of the Ivys. At Cornell where I went, it isn't much of a problem.

[Godfather80]

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2. what are the risks for me, ie chance of me getting caught. is there a handwritten part would be sent to each college? even so there is no way to trace it to me, that is what im thinking.

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There is a handwritten essay portion of the test, but I don't think that anybody will be doing a handwriting sample. To make it easy on yourself, simply print your essay.