<p>it seems like many colleges put less emphasis on the writing scores, if any at all.</p>
<p>If you are considering top notch colleges such as the Ivy League Schools, then yes, these kind of schools will take writing scores into perspective.</p>
<p>Getting a good writing score on the SAT won’t hurt, if not aid, you in your application process.</p>
<p>Moral of the story, writing scores count.</p>
<p>Some colleges will look closely at your writing score and some won’t. Why take a chance? There’s no penalty for doing well on the writing section.</p>
<p>The truth is, you will spend a lot of time writing papers in college. You will spend a lot of time writing in almost any office job.</p>
<p>Writing well is a skill you should have and be able to demonstrate to your college of choice.</p>
<p>Colleges know that your SAT essay is not a true test of your ability to write a term paper. Unless you’re seriously cramming, you’ll have more than 25 minutes to write a college paper.</p>
<p>But colleges also know that you were the one only one who wrote your SAT essay. They can’t be certain you wrote your application essay.</p>
<p>All things considered, a high score on the writing section can only help you.</p>
<p>And a low score might hurt.</p>
<p>C has 650 on SAT and ACT score is 8 of 12 for a combined 31 English/Writing. Planning to re-take the SAT because of the writing score, with 1450 on the other two sections.</p>
<p>Not looking at ivies but at top LAC’s like Carleton, Grinnell, Oberlin.</p>
<p>Carleton cares about the ACT writing scores.</p>
<p>So 8 of 12 combined with 35 English gives a 31 combined English/writing score which is 97th percentile.</p>
<p>Is it worth retaking to get the writing portion up?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>what’s your compositie?</p>
<p>Composite score is 33</p>
<p>high score in writing won’t hurt you</p>