Five graduate school students have been accused of paying other people to take standardized tests for them in the hopes of getting higher scores, authorities said.
The students, who were arrested on charges of forgery and criminal impersonation, were admitted to schools including New York University's Stern School of Business and the MBA program at Baruch College.
Authorities said they responded to ads in a Chinese-language newspaper offering tutoring for the tests but then paid $2,500 each or more to have someone else take the TOEFL, GRE and GMAT exams in their places.
The adds were allegedly placed by Ping Shen, 47, of Queens, who was arrested last month, authorities said.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office said Shen gave stand-ins fake passports to pose as the students. Another man, Lu Xu, of Manhattan, is accused of taking 150 tests...
Lu is obviously a masochist. If he got a substantial cut of that $2500 to take each test, he's a rich masochist, but still a masochist.
Posted by kswygert at August 21, 2003 10:44 AM