<p>Hey yall. </p>
<p>How does Northwestern regard sat writing. Do they put as little weight on it as an sat subject test? Less? Or almost the weight the put on CR + M? Please answer only if you know! And pleaseeee do not say... well you need to do well on the writing section regardless... I'd really just like to get an idea of how important the writing section is. </p>
<p>Also does NU have any strange admissions "thing" about them that they are notorious for?... kinda like Lehigh loves to reject everyone who doesn't visit and Wash U loves to waitlist everyoneee.</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>As of last year’s admissions cycle, my understanding is that NU does NOT look at the writing scores. I believe that I have read this as well as heard it in an Admissions info session. I think that the subject tests, therefore, are far more important than the writing section. Makes sense if they are recommending them.</p>
<p>Sorry, don’t know about any admissions quirks.</p>
<p>Considering the stats of a friend who was accepted into NU last year, I say yes, the Writing section isn’t considered as much as the CR and Math section.</p>
<p>My friend had a 2180 on the SAT, but 1580 on CR/M.
He also got a 800 on Math II and 780 in Bio and Chem.</p>
<p>So I’d agree with above poster. SAT II is also held in high regard.</p>
<p>Does it completely disregard it like Cornell, though? Cornell’s common data set says that they do not use it at all. Northwestern’s says that “there is no college policy as of know.” That is why im asking</p>
<p>Just an FYI, I went to NU’s info session and the guy leading it stressed at least 3 times that not having SAT IIs will not hurt you at all. Take it as you wish.</p>
<p>I’m not too sure myself about these policies, but just a note if they are true, not having those scores/ having bad scores cannot hurt you but having good scores can only help you.</p>
<p>There are at least 100 threads on this topic. SAT Writing counts like a SAT II (which was what the SAT Writing used to be, anyway). </p>
<p>Aside from my actual knowledge of the issue - look at it intuitively:
NU reports SATs on the 1600 scale, so clearly CR and M > W. But to think that the admissions council would completely analyze any data point, let alone one of the few that are standardized nationally, is crazy.</p>