<p>i know schools like MIT and Cornell don't consider the SAT writing section, so i was just wondering if Stanford does. thanks!</p>
<p>Yeah, if you look at their admit rate for people with perfect scores, the people with perfect writing scores have the highest acceptance percentage.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that they consider it though. I think they might still be in the stage where they’re recording the scores and seeing how well students do at Stanford with certain Writing scores. That might change for next year though.</p>
<p>The 2008 common set data states that Stanford is not using essay component.
<a href=“http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/[/url]”>http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/</a></p>
<p>It likely means that writing students are very well rounded thus it pulls through to other aspects of the acceptance.</p>
<p>The essay component and writing components are different. The essay is a score out of 12, the writing 800. I understand that the essay is a part of the writing score, but just because they do not look at the essay component does not mean that they ignore the writing score.</p>
<p>If Stanford doesn’t use the essay component, then their admitted students’ writing scores might reflect their CR and/or math scores because they usually admit high scoring students (but of course, look at an application hollistically).</p>