I think the story of cheating rich kids was an interesting one. Putting a poor Asian girl with a single dad and a black kid as 2 of the leads is very progressive but might feel fake to some.

I'm glad they got caught. Teachers aren't idiots.

I don't think they needed to drive up just how hard the SATs were to cheat in. You can bring programs on your graphing calculator that aren't allowed. It doesn't help much. You can put a dictionary in your calculator which can help with vocab if you memorize the questions for the scantron. Rich people used to get stand-ins to take the test for them. People write on the labels of water bottles. And compared to Asian entrance exams, studying for the SATs are a joke. Some districts give extra time (oh our students have disabilities). It detracts from the movie. The SATs don't even mean that much as more top schools are removing it as a requirement. Just glad they didn't do the usual Asian girl romance.

It takes a bit away from the movie when you make the least serious standardized test globally sound super important. Any rich guy who can't get a 1000 on their SATs can't get their grades high enough to get in through legacy.