Gossip Girl predicted the college cheating scandal

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https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/gossi...g-scandal.html

The 15th episode of Season 1 of The CW teen series revolved around SAT cheating reminiscent of the allegations that got Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman in hot water. In one storyline from the episode, Blair Waldorf tries to manipulate her classmate Nelly Yuki into doing poorly on the SATs because Yale only accepts one student from their class each year, as Lisa Ryan points out. There was also another SAT storyline from that episode. "In season one," writes Ryan, "Serena van der Woodsen is a reformed party girl, who is inspired by her boyfriend Dan Humphrey (who is later revealed to be Gossip Girl himself!) to be a better student and actually study for the SATs. But when her former party buddy Georgina Sparks comes back to town, Serena agrees to go out the night before the SATs out of fear that Georgina might reveal her secret (which we later learn is that non-murder). And guess what? Georgina roofies her!!! Before the SATs!!! Oh boy. But never fear, because Serena’s soon-to-be stepbrother Chuck Bass steps up to help her out, or so she thinks. Chuck pays a girl to take the SATs for Serena (without her permission or knowledge, how rude) — just as he had also paid a guy to take the SATs for him."