New York, NY - Test Faker Helping Yeshiva Students

New York, NY - A Stuyvesant HS graduate who attends a top-tier New England university confesses he's taken dozens of tests for rich New York "slackers" - including SAT's, Regents and community-college credit exams - for up to $800 a pop.

The serial test-taker, says he's been an academic gun-for-hire for nearly four years - taking five SAT and nine SAT II subject exams, one Regents test and "countless" community college credit exams.

He said he relies on word of mouth - fueled initially by reports of his own SAT score, 1470 out of a possible 1600. "My friend knew I did well on my SATs and knew these kids who were looking to hire so he passed my name along, and they approached me and we negotiated a flat fee of about $500," he said of his first fraud, in 2003, when he was still at Stuyvesant. "They were determined and were going to find someone to do it one way or another," he said of his clients.

So were a set of unscrupulous parents, who coughed up $800 so their Brooklyn yeshiva student son would score a 1200 and get into Baruch College.
"The tests are easy," he said. I realized that this was something I could do for the idiotic private school kids who were too lazy and afraid to open a book."
He describes most of his clients as lazy, upper-middle-class kids with professional parents who have coasted through high school and now need good SAT scores to get into decent colleges.
"Most people who are on the hunt for test-takers spend more time figuring out how to cheat than they would if they just" studied for the test, he said.