Teen accused of SAT cheating appears on TV
Photo credit: Photo by 60 Minutes | Sam Eshaghoff in a 60 MINUTES interview to be broadcast on Sunday, January 1, 2011. Eshaghoff is now a 19-yr-old sophomore at Emory University. This past September he was charged with fraud and criminal impersonation for posing multiple times as other students and gaining entrance to test centers by using fake IDs. He took the two nationally accepted college admissions tests � the SAT and the ACT � a combined total of at least 20 times, charging students up to $2,500 per test.
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The former Great Neck North High School student accused of cheating on SAT exams for other students says he found it was "easy" to start, but, with money rolling in, it was difficult to stop.
Sam Eshaghoff, 19, told CBS News' "60 Minutes" in an interview broadcast Sunday night that he had heard of people at his school taking tests for money but didn't start doing so himself until a struggling...
