So for the class of 2017, the colleges will be seeing scores out of 2400 and other scores out of 1600.
I know the scores come out as 1600 and submitted out of 1600 to colleges, but is there a chance that college admissions will simply have our scores be verbal * 2 + math = out of 2400?
Just wondering since that is how it was done for PSAT, I believe. Also, colleges will need to compare our scores…
Also, can colleges know what we got on the writing and reading separately, or do they just come reported as ONLY one verbal score?
While that would make sense, we will never know until the end of 2017. Also, the PSAT was inflated a lot. 1200~ on the PSAT = 1500 on the old SAT. Because of this, it is hard to say that that will be how colleges interpret scores. The scores for the new SAT administration might not be as inflated because they are spending so much time (2-month score wait) scoring it; I interpret this to be them trying to equate scores. I believe colleges do see your writing and reading scores separately. CB once said it wanted to provide colleges with more information about tested students than before.
My understanding is that percentile will always play a big factor in scores. Even if the tests become easier/harder, the competition will be the same for students.
I went to a presentation by the Florida State University System a couple of weeks ago, and also when to a University visit last week. As you can imagine how the new SAT was being evaluated was the first question. In both sessions the answers were similar to the following:
Both times the answer was clear, they will analyze the results and make a decision by fall. Now this was just for the state of Florida, but I am sure they are not alone in the “we are still figuring this out” camp.
Perhaps they will decide to just double the Verbal as the OP suggested, perhaps they will give standardized testing less weight in the admission decisions. They may decide to use the additional analytics in the decision making process, but based on how the process was described, it sounded like they were as overwhelmed (or should I say underwhelmed) with the new SAT as the rest of us.
One thing I did hear was the state universities will considered the essay portion of both the SAT and ACT as optional for the class of 2017, though they have not officially announced that decision, I am assuming they are waiting for the new application cycle to start. Since these a state universities I am pretty sure that when they say “optional” they mean they will not look at them.