Chance ED to Brandeis? How much weight place on SAT writing score?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brandeis University
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<p>My daughter wants to apply ED to Brandeis. We only want her to apply if we believe she has a reasonable chance of getting in. Her chances of ED acceptance to the other schools she likes (tho not as much as B) are better, but we don’t feel confident that she could get into any of them regular decision. So we don’t want her to waste her ED app on B if it’s a long shot. </p>

<p>Her Achilles heel(s): SAT M610 and paucity of AP & Honors classes, 1 AP, 2 Honors (Despite being a selective NYC hs, her school doesn’t offer many AP & Honors classes, but they offer a few more than she took)
Her biggest strength is writing: SAT W790 , Editor of school newspaper, literary journal (3 yrs), AP Lang.
Rest of profile: SAT CR670. Extracurriculars: (newspaper, literary journal) student govt (2 yrs), several other clubs. Community activism: Project Cicero, student chair (7 yrs). Award: Borough President’s Certificate of Excellence. She’s Jewish, lives in Brooklyn (so her demographics won’t help)
It would help us assess her chances if we knew how much weight B places on the SAT writing score? We know most schools either ignore, or place little weight. I posed this ? to someone in the B Admissions office, but couldn’t get a straight answer. Does anyone know?
I would welcome input from others who have applied to B about her chance of ED acceptance. (Interestingly, in comparison to the other schools she’s considering, very few kids apply ED to B- I wonder why. )</p>

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<p>Your daughter has a very good chance of getting in I think she’s a match. I got in, and will be attending in the fall but I had a SAT score of 1730 (horrible right?). I’m not say its an easy school to get into, because its not. I think I probably have the lowest score of any reg admit. I’m just trying to show that admissions at brandeis are holistic, and they consider a lot of factors. My GPA was 3.9, I took 2 AP classes and I had a lot of extra curricular a and more than 200 hours of community service.</p>

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<p>You are leaving out a very important piece of the puzzle. What is her GPA? That will matter a lot. Her writing score should be a plus because she has activities that support it. My d got in with the same W score and a demonstrated interest in writing. I think many schools would view her as a potential writing talent and someone to take a chance on.</p>