My daughter has a friend who recently confessed about how she was able to get a perfect (1600) combined SAT score. This girl is very bright and has outstanding grades, but I guess she thought that wasn't good enough.
It was a pretty simple plan...she took the SAT twice and ignored the proctor's directions to finish up with one section of the test and start on the other halfway through (the two parts are math and critical reading). Each time, she spent almost all of the allotted time on one section and basically ignored the other. I was really shocked to hear that the proctoring was so poor that this was possible.
The kid was still showing some serious brainpower to pull two 800s, but I remain outraged that she got away with this. Do schools not have access to her full suite of test results to see that she had poor results on one section each time she took the test? Either they don't or just don't care, as this kid had her choice of Ivys to attend (perfect student for them with great grades, perfect SAT, lots of activities, and uberrich parents who can easily pay full price).
Taking the SAT more than once seems extremely common now...my daughter and all her friends took it at least twice, and my daughter definitely spent more prep time on the subject that gave her the weaker result on the first try while getting ready for the 2nd time. She certainly didn't cheat brazenly, though! I never heard of taking it more than once until just after my scores came in, when I saw on the news that a kid in a nearby town had a 1600...he mentioned in his interview that it was his 4th or 5th time taking the SAT! I thought that was a pretty bogus perfect at the time.
It was a pretty simple plan...she took the SAT twice and ignored the proctor's directions to finish up with one section of the test and start on the other halfway through (the two parts are math and critical reading). Each time, she spent almost all of the allotted time on one section and basically ignored the other. I was really shocked to hear that the proctoring was so poor that this was possible.
The kid was still showing some serious brainpower to pull two 800s, but I remain outraged that she got away with this. Do schools not have access to her full suite of test results to see that she had poor results on one section each time she took the test? Either they don't or just don't care, as this kid had her choice of Ivys to attend (perfect student for them with great grades, perfect SAT, lots of activities, and uberrich parents who can easily pay full price).
Taking the SAT more than once seems extremely common now...my daughter and all her friends took it at least twice, and my daughter definitely spent more prep time on the subject that gave her the weaker result on the first try while getting ready for the 2nd time. She certainly didn't cheat brazenly, though! I never heard of taking it more than once until just after my scores came in, when I saw on the news that a kid in a nearby town had a 1600...he mentioned in his interview that it was his 4th or 5th time taking the SAT! I thought that was a pretty bogus perfect at the time.