<p>They don't report their average writing scores but I also heard somewhere that they treat it as a subject test, like it used to be. Anyone have a certain answer?</p>
<p>no, they do not look at writing scores at all. This may change next year, but for this year no.</p>
<p>haha why the heck did i take the sat a second time then (my writing score was the only one that needed/should have improvement)… berkeley only looked at single sitting and apparently cornell doesnt look at it either.
whatever it all worked out =]</p>
<p>They don’t even treat it as a subject test?</p>
<p>That sucks. My writing was my highest score by 50 points.</p>
<p>tboonepickens, that is wrong</p>
<p>on the website for your application status it lists your writing score along with cr and math. they definitely do see the score, and weight it as they choose. how much it actually counts relative to cr and math is uncertain, but your writing score can be a factor. for example, if you present yourself as a great writer in your application, then the writing score can be a big boost.</p>
<p>I just found the kaplan website that published how each school decided to weigh the writing section. Ironically, harvard weighed it equally while cornell is undecided.</p>
<p>^Why is that ironic?</p>
<p>Of course my dream school wouldn’t look at my best section by far on the SATs.</p>
<p>I agree with Midaji. How is that ironic?</p>
<p>An admissions officer from Engineering told me they do not look at it at all. Granted, a 500 might look suspect, but for right now, they’re only gathering data on it. Might be just engineering, but that’s what she told me.</p>
<p>Well harvard and Stanford weigh it equally while schools like northwestern don’t weigh it at all. I just thought it was ironic because I thought everyone would follow those two top schools, but obviously they don’t. Maybe it isn’t ironic but it’s a little odd.</p>
<p>I am 1X10^(999999999999999999999999999999999) percent certain that cornell does not weight the writing section at all. I applied to CoE early decision, and got accepted with a 540 writing score. I also called their admissions office before I submitted my ask to see what their policy on writing was, and they said they do not use it at all in making their decisions.</p>
<p>that’s not what they said at the information session</p>
<p>maybe it’s just COE with that policy</p>
<p>I thought it depends on the different schools/colleges you are applying at Cornell.
For example, SHA considers the math section the most important… and so on.</p>
<p>common sense guys
if you’re really concerned just apply to some liberal arts school</p>
<p>Of course the CoE doesnt care its an ENGINEERING school, ya know for engineering (MATH AND SCIENCE), however I am almost positive that the College of Arts and Sciences looks at it. How else would Cornell have produced the many brilliant novelists that it did without ensuring that their students are in fact talented writers?</p>
<p>SAT writing doesn’t predict your possible aptitude at great writing though. I am a great writer, but the way the questions were constructed on the page made it more difficult for me to complete it accurately. I got a 540 SAT writing, but I got a 33 SAT E+W combined. I think it is mainly because the in context paragraph style of the ACT is MUCH EASIER than the choppy SAT style. Regardless, there was a study done on the SAT writing last year. The study showed that the CR+M score was 66% effective at predicting student success, and the CR+M+W was 67% effective at predicting student success (within the margin of error). Therefore many colleges have determined that it is useless as a metric for predicting student success.</p>
<p>Oh yes, the brilliant novelists that graduated Cornell before the SAT Writing was ever invented.</p>
<p>The writing section basically tests to see if you can find grammatical errors, which I believe is important whether you write novels or research papers.</p>