<p>Does it look at it?</p>
<p>Their college profile says they don’t, but the admissions guy I talked to stated that if your essays seem mediocre/something is wrong with them, they may take the score into consideration.</p>
<p>So, it can only hurt, not help? :/</p>
<p>I wonder if perfect scores on writing would be looked at favorably or have no effect…</p>
<p>I have always been lead to believe that they DON’T consider it.</p>
<p>On the contrary, if your essays suck, but you have a good writing score, that may work to your advantage. It’s very circumstantial for them to be used.</p>
<p>At least that’s what I was told.</p>
<p>My writing sat score is around ~720-730, should I just stop preparing for it and focus a lot on M+CR? ( I am taking my first sat in jan, I want to apply ED to northwestern)</p>
<p>FlyCat, yes, don’t spend any time trying to raise your writing score. They are looking at CR +M. I have heard repeatedly that the W score isn’t considered.</p>
<p>Omg that makes me mad… My essay was bad (8) but I still got a 770 (80 MC). Stinks knowing that a 9 would have been an 800 
oh well. But I thought this would balance out my low CR score (690). Math is fine. Hmmm darn northwestern. Why do they report SAT writing scores if they don’t consider them?</p>
<p>hey! I have a 760 M 760 CR but a 660 W. </p>
<p>are you sure writing doesn’t matter? does it say this on any website?</p>
<p>Oops, that means my 800 writing isn’t worth a dime at NU.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it’s not important. I got a 7 the first time and an 8 the second, and they still accepted me. However, I also got a 35 on the English portion, so maybe that helped make up for it since my combined score wasn’t too terrible.</p>