Felicity Huffmans older daughter Sophia will be allowed to re-take the SATs
Felicity Huffman handled her guilty plea the way people should – she admitted guilt, she apologized and she seemed properly humbled by the entire ordeal. Her guilty plea was for the federal charges associated with paying Rick Singer to have her daughters’ SAT scores changed. The initial plan was to pay Singer to change the SAT scores for both of her daughters, Sophia and Georgia, but they had only arranged it for the older girl, Sophia, at the time of Felicity’s arrest.
As part of her guilty plea, Felicity got to make a statement where she tried to explain (while still admitting guilt) why she had tried to scam the SATs for her daughters. Her explanation was that both her daughters have “serious learning disabilities,” and something something, she wanted them to get into good performing arts schools. Honestly, it didn’t make a lot of sense overall – if her daughters had such serious learning disabilities, surely there were about a million other options besides “do crimes and cheat on the SATs,” right? Anyway, the point of rehashing this is that after Felicity’s arrest, Sophia was no longer allowed to audition for this performing arts school she wanted. But… good news? Sophia will be allowed to take the SATs:
Felicity Huffman’s daughter will get a second bite of the apple — as in she can take another SAT test — because there’s no proof she was involved in rigging the first one she took. As we extensively reported, Felicity paid Rick Singer $15k to get a proctor to cheat up daughter Sophia’s SAT score. The proctor gave Sophia extra time to take the exam and then fixed some of the wrong answers. For that, Felicity pled guilty to a felony and will serve 14 days.
We’ve heard Sophia wants to go to college and must take a legit SAT test. Here’s the thing … the College Board security policy states, “College Board will prohibit individuals from taking the SAT … when we conclude they have deliberately gained or attempted to gain or share an unfair advantage on any College Board test, or otherwise threatened the integrity of the test.” So far, everyone who has looked at Felicity’s case has concluded Sophia was in the dark. There is one thing … up to this point, authorities have looked at the players in the case with an eye toward criminal prosecution. There is no proof — certainly beyond a reasonable doubt — that Sophia knew what was going down. As such, there’d be no reason she couldn’t take another SAT test.
A College Board rep tells TMZ, even if they felt Sophia had some culpability, there would only be a 6-month suspension under these circumstances and the 6 months has already passed. Another rep says students are generally able to register for the test without issue … but there can be exceptions. All in all, it appears Sophia will be just fine.
Sophia is 19 years old and Georgia is 17. Just going off of my high school/college experience, I started doing PSATs and SAT-prep stuff at 16, and I’m trying to remember, but I think I took the SATs once or twice around my 17th birthday. My point is that… I guess it’s good that Sophia gets to retake the SATs, but mostly I just wonder if Felicity has completely warped her daughters, and I kind of feel like Sophia is going to end up taking the SATs and then she’ll decide she’s not into this or that and she’ll just end up being supported by her parents anyway. Are those girls able to do sh-t for themselves? Are the diagnoses of “serious learning disabilities” just another scam? Are they actually interested in higher education or was that Felicity being a helicopter parent? I don’t know.
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