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You can review the letter and see what you think. Here's the
link to: Huffman Letter, page 1; Huffman Letter, Page 2; and Huffman Letter page 3
First, I tell clients when they write such letters that it is hard to truly apologize at the same time that you're crying for yourself and your family. The letter came off to me as being more about how this has adversely affected Ms. Huffman and her family than how she apologizes to the victims of the SAT cheating fraud and the college students across the country who took the same test her daughter did. She could have acknowledge in greater detail that her actions and bribe resulted in her daughter getting an additional 400 points on the SAT which is a big jump.
First, I tell clients when they write such letters that it is hard to truly apologize at the same time that you're crying for yourself and your family. The letter came off to me as being more about how this has adversely affected Ms. Huffman and her family than how she apologizes to the victims of the SAT cheating fraud and the college students across the country who took the same test her daughter did. She could have acknowledge in greater detail that her actions and bribe resulted in her daughter getting an additional 400 points on the SAT which is a big jump.
Second, I would have told her that her letter focused in my opinion too much upon herself and was too self-involved. Her statements that "I find Motherhood bewildering" and that she was in a "blind panic" when she decided to pay off the proctor would have been deleted by my red pen. Her husband's statements in his letter, see below, about how motherhood was "frightened" his wife did not help.
