<p>I heard that Princeton reads your SAT essays in part of your evaluation. That scares me a bit because I am terrible at writing those essays in 25 minutes (i got -1 mc but an 8 essay)</p>
<p>You can check it on collegeboard. Go to princeton’s page and its SAT/ACT section.</p>
<p>haha I took the SAT twice and got -1MC and 8 essay on both as well! (scores 730 and 750). I don’t believe they would put so much weight on them though.</p>
<p>If they did your would be pretty screwed.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that isn’t true… I’ve never even heard of a college doing that.</p>
<p>I went to collegeboard myself to check:
Princeton uses the SAT/ACT essay for the following purposes</p>
<p>Will be used for admission<br>
Will be used for placement<br>
Will be used for advising<br>
Will be used as a validity check on the application essay </p>
<p>So yeah they consider the essay for a lot of purposes. (as do most of the other top colleges in the US). I would like to say though that they don’t care about it as much.</p>
<p>Validity check on the application essay? As if. A 25 minute essay used to check an essay that one could spend tens of hours on? Not much correlation, I must say.</p>
<p>I highly doubt the admissions office would have the time to go over your SAT essay on a generic subject unless they suspect cheating on the SAT test or something equally dodgy.</p>
<p>No, they will read your essay. That is the sole piece of writing which they can guarantee came out of your hand without any outside influence. Now, if you scored an 8 and had an outstanding essay, that would be especially remarkable, and they’ll most likely look over it and check to see if the style and phrasings are similar, which hopefully should not be an issue; however, if you have extensively edited your essays for colleges, you may have lost your original voice, and that can be problematic.</p>
<p>bpsbgs</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer to whether Princeton actually reads the SAT essays. My suspicion is that the adcoms do not, unless they have reason to doubt the applicant’s writing in some fashion. Even if they do, I highly doubt that they parse it in the fashion you are suggesting.</p>
<p>As any computational linguist can tell you, it’s exceptionally easy to determine whether two pieces of writing come from the same author without even having to read either of them.</p>
<p>Why does everyone think that humans have to be the ones reading your crappy essays?</p>
<p>You should hope that they don’t “cosider” your essay.</p>