<p>Whoops, missed that. My bad. As for the M+CR, you’ll have to ask individual colleges for that answer (you can check if they consider writing on their Common Data Set). However, this is an article tossed around here sometimes.</p>
<p><a href=“SAT Essay Test Rewards Length and Ignores Errors - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/04education.html</a></p>