<p>I wasn't sure where to put this so I apologize if this isn't it.</p>
<p>Anyways, I read somewhere that, when totaling up your SAT score, you're supposed to omit the writing portion. Is that true? When someone asks you what your combined total is, do you add all three or just math and verbal?</p>
<p>alot of colleges don't care much about the writing score but I doubt that you omit it.
Why not just send the scores to where you want to go and let them do what they want with it?</p>
<p>I did/am, I was just asking because someone asked what my total score is and said that I'd be fine if it's at LEAST a 1200. I figured he was including the writing portion's score as well because, otherwise, that'd mean I'd have had to have scored at LEAST 600 points on my math and reading sections when the national average, for the year I took my test at least, was no higher than a 518 or so. Now I'm worried...even though the schools I'm applying to go no higher than my highest score.</p>
<p>This really depends on which schools you're applying to. If it's all 3 sections that would mean a 400 in each section, and that would be below the national average. Also think that not everyone in the nation goes to college, so the national average includes a lot of people whon don't end up at college, dragging the average down. Add to that people who end up in Community Colleges, or really low-ranked unis, then I'd say the average person attending top 50, maybe even a larger range of unis, would indeed need at least 600 points in each section. But if the schools you're applying to don't have scores higher than yours I wouldn't worry about it. Not everyone is blinkered and staring at HYPSMC</p>