<p>Just wondering, because my writing score was my highest by over 100 points. Its really aggrivating.</p>
<p>^ i know how you feel. Writing is always my highest; the answers are just so obvious...</p>
<p>um most of them do!!</p>
<p>My writing score was my lowest by 120 points, heh. :P</p>
<p>They do. A lot of Ivies admission officers said they do. Also, if you don't trust me, go to collegeboard.com and see the mean for writing. It'll be equally high as reading or math.</p>
<p>okay good thanks :)
theres lots of big rumors going around that the writing section "doesn't count anyway" and it really bothered me hahah</p>
<p>We attended the open house today at the University of Maryland, where the people from the journalism school informed us they do not look at the writing section of the SAT when deciding on admissions, to the amazement of some parents in the audience. In response to questions the administrators said they don't know of any colleges that consider the writing section as a factor. On top of that, the university director of admissions in her talk to parents referred only to the math and verbal scores combined when discussing median SAT scores of those admitted. I, too, would like to know--what is the point of this writing test???</p>
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<p>They need to beef up their research abilities in that journalism school. It is a VERY easy research problem to find out that some colleges regard the writing section on the SAT, e.g., </p>
<p>College</a> Search - Harvard College - SAT®, AP®, CLEP® </p>
<p>College</a> Search - Yale University - SAT®, AP®, CLEP® </p>
<p>College</a> Search - University of Pennsylvania - Penn - SAT®, AP®, CLEP® </p>
<p>College</a> Search - University of California: Berkeley - Cal - SAT®, AP®, CLEP®</p>
<p>I do wonder if most don't use the scores, though. NYU states they don't, because not enough data has been collected to evaluate if the SAT writing score can predict college readiness. That being said, would a really high score be totally ignored? Who knows. Northwestern seems to use it as a validation of their application essays. (I guess that means they'd question if a kid wrote fabulous essays, yet bombed the SAT.) Chicago doesn't seem to use it, or even require ACT writing to be submitted. I'm too lazy to look further into this, but there seems to be a pretty wide variety of ways colleges are handling it.</p>
<p>The schools I applied to said they asked for the writing score of incoming students for research purposes. They told me that at the moment it isn't taken into account for acceptance but they are seeing how well kids are doing on it to study all the scores and such. Eventually it will matter a lot more but it's just too new now to expect certain scores.</p>
<p>My situation is the opposite of the OP's.. 670 writing as opposed to 1530 M/V. IMO the writing section is broken and needs a LOT (at least one more years worth) of work before colleges should seriously consider it. lol</p>
<p>From PSAT to SAT, my daughter's math and WRITING went way up and reading stayed where it was. Unfortunately, all the schools she is considering state that they don't consider writing at all :-(</p>
<p>Writing is by far my best section as well. It's frustrating. It can't hurt you. I'm sure that having a high writing score will help somewhere.</p>
<p>I wish I could switch my math (670) and writing (790)</p>
<p>Sigh</p>
<p>The writing section is cake if you are a native english speaker and read books a lot.</p>
<p>IM IN A A DILEMMA!!!</p>
<p>1500 M/R</p>
<p>670 W bleh</p>
<p>i looking for top level unis. (not like MIT or something) but perhaps princeton or upenn ...should i retake because of my writing score.</p>
<p>Writing section is still in a hiatus period. A number of colleges, particularly most of the high ranks, are using it for admission. However, the majority of colleges, particularly most public universities, are not using it yet, many because they want to see several years of data first to determine how and if they should use it. One issue you face if you will be entering college in 2009 or 2010 is that any given school that is currently saying it is not using it might decide to use it by the time you go to apply.</p>
<p>Hey, I got a 2280 (R-800, W-770, M-710). If I want to get into a really selective school (like Ivy level), should I retake? I'm pretty happy with my score, but I'd like to boost that math score a bit...</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Journalism no longer teaches much fact-finding-based research.</p>
<p>The whole change to the new SAT was driven by the Univ. of Cal system, which any admissions officer should know (since its so recent). If they don't use it.....</p>
<p>University of Connecticut will consider the writing score if it's good; that's what an admissions officer told me. So they don't throw it out entirely.</p>
<p>specific colleges accept the writing section. just check collegeboard and if they give a range for the writing section then that means they consider it in admissions</p>