<p>I’ve heard statements on both sides for these two issues. </p>
<p>A Penn college session said they count the Writing, but another one said they count it as only a SATII and look at SATI as CR+M only. </p>
<p>I’ve seen posts and heard from my GC that they look at 9th grade, but some other GCs say they don’t. </p>
<p>Truth anyone?</p>
<p>They look at 9th grade, but it carries the least amount of weight. One B or two 9th grade will hurt you less than having hte same grades Junior year. Penn also looks at the SAT writing. Writing used to be an SATII than many top colleges required of applicants. Now that it is part of the SATI, I think that it is weighted less than CR and M, but they still look at it. So long as you break 650 on writing and have 1400 on the other two sections, you should be in range for Penn. However, they still see your score, and a bad one will hurt you but a good one will not help as much.</p>
<p>thats too bad. i got a 1550 on M + CR and a 620 on writing (even though im the editor of my newspaper?) stupid college board.</p>
<p>No, venkater, Penn weights the Writing section equally to CR and M this year. That 620 will hurt, it's below Penn's 25% range in Writing.</p>
<p>Well maybe I am thinking in terms of 2005-2006 admissions when writing was just added to the SAT.</p>