<p>Is that true?</p>
<p>Even if they did not, when I send my score report they will at least see my writing score. So could it still have some effect?</p>
<p>Will my 800 on Writing and 12 on Essay go to waste? =/</p>
<p>Yes, it's true -- they don't count writing. I don't know if they transfer only the scores they want to review to a separate document. The writing they want to see is in your essays.</p>
<p>DAMN.</p>
<p>why would they not count Writing? They don't consider it legitimate?</p>
<p>I had an 800 writing too. I didn't even know they didn't count it until after I was in college here, though. Chicago doesn't place a huge amount of weight on SATs to begin with. I think if SAT scores are consistent with the rest of an application, they probably don't pay that much attention to it. </p>
<p>So, don't worry about it. They're probably not looking all that closely to your reading or math scores, either, as long as they're within the normal range and match up with the rest of your application.</p>
<p>^Yeah well my GPA is really low so I was hoping my SAT scores would help make up for it.</p>
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It won't if you write a good essay for Chicago. Presumably you have the ability if you scored an 800 (granted, it's not a given).</p>
<p>When you send one SAT score they get previous ones too right? I wanna make certain they have both of them.</p>
<p>The College Board sends everything you've taken with them for a number (5?) of years or sittings. So, yes.</p>
<p>Ted O'Neill has pretty publicly said that he thinks the SAT writing test has essentially nothing to do with the actual process of developing a good written argument. The sort of well-reasoning analytic response that is valued in academic writing can't be produced in 30 minutes. He points out that some of the most essential parts of producing a good piece of writing (revision, editing, etc.) are totally ignored. He also, half-seriously, commented that penmanship could make a big difference in scoring (and based on how quickly the essays are scored and how the physical appearance of something tends to shape judgment, it probably does matter). Throw in the fact that people who physically write slower (i.e. the act of producing the written characters) are at a huge disadvantage that really has nothing to do with ability to write. In fact, the tendency to think critically about a situation can be a huge disadvantage on the SAT writing test, since you don't really have time to think about the situation much before you have to write about it, meaning that it may, in fact, value something that is exactly the opposite from the writing that Chicago (and probably most universities) actually want.</p>
<p>I completely agree with Ted O'Neill's opinions on that. Most of those points can be applied to the two other areas of the SAT as well.</p>
<p>I agree about the SATI writing section, though not about the other two. Scoring well on the writing section is a matter of following rules. What great writer has ever followed the rules?</p>
<p>i was just on a tour at cornell and they said that they will not consider the writing piece of the SAT until they've measured it's accuracy and consistency with the academic caliber of the student. it's too new to be taken seriously, especially at a place like UChicago that puts such huge weight on their essays.</p>