<p>I got my SAT results in the mail today and of the 4 colleges i sent them to, Duke was the only college that recorded the 50% math and verbal scores of previous students but under the writing section said, "Writing not reported". Any help greatly appreciated since I will know which sections to focus on!</p>
<p>it does. look under " SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows: Admission"</p>
<p>the admissions officer said no</p>
<p>Yeah when I visited the info session speaker said "we really don't know how to weigh the SAT or ACT writing components right now, so they're not really that important"</p>
<p>Dang, that sucks. Writing was my highest section</p>
<p>Thank you, ACT.</p>
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me too...by far.</p>
<p>YAY! i was mad about my writing score.</p>
<p>My regional admission officer said she wouldn't.</p>
<p>Do you think high W would offset low CR? like 800 vs 690?</p>
<p>No. The two sections assess two totally different things.</p>
<p>no. the reason they're deciding not to is because no research has been published about the fairness, accuracy etc of the writing section scores yet.</p>
<p>they're adopting the same policy as the state schools in NC. the state legislature declared that owing to the untested nature of the writing section no public NC schools could consider it during applications (at least for my class two years ago, graduating 06. may have changed since then).</p>
<p>but as far as i know duke is still keeping that same policy.</p>
<p>I don't think Duke is completely ignoring it, but is probably still treating it tentatively as some kind of SAT II writing.</p>
<p>CNI (post #2) is right, here's the Duke profile link from Collegeboard:</p>
<p>College</a> Search - Duke University - Duke - SAT®, AP®, CLEP®</p>
<p>If you choose to submit ACT scores Duke will only accept it with writing. Who knows to what extent they'll use it but I don't think they are going to ignore it all together.</p>