How important is the writing score? Composite is good but writing is low.
It is probably the least important out of the ACT sections. Many colleges do not even require you to submit the writing portion. It also depends on what major you are going for. If you are going to be a nuclear scientist (not sure why this was the first profession I thought of), they won’t care whether you can write or not.
Define low. And does the student have any writing intensive AP results in hand?
32 composite 8 out of 12 writing
As long as you don’t have a 4 on it your good. Colleges will generally read your essay to get a sense of your writing abilities.
8 is fine. No college with be worried about that.
Thank you all very much!
Yeah 8 is good. Plus a 32 is a great score so I don’t think you need to worry 
I feel like nuclear scientists need to be able to communicate clearly in writing.
That said, I agree an 8 is absolutely fine.