<p>^ I’m not doubting that it’s true overall, I’d just like to see something backing it up. My guess is also that, while most correlated with overall college success, this wouldn’t necessarily hold for tech schools or science majors. But I’m speculating ^.^</p>
<p>Nah it holds true for all colleges/majors, it’s not just an English thing (neither is CR, otherwise colleges like MIT and Caltech wouldn’t need to consider it seriously would they). I have no idea why.
I’d also like to see some proof of it, actually
I’ll research it and try to find something.</p>
<p>Got it.
Here we go: [This part is from the conclusion]
[quote]
This report documents the results of the SAT validity
study, based on a large sample of students entering
110 four-year colleges and universities in fall 2006 and
completing their first year of college in May/June 2007.
The results show that the changes made to the SAT did
not substantially change how predictive the test is of
first-year college performance. Across all institutions,
the recently added writing section is the most highly
predictive of the three individual SAT sections.<a href=“Emphasis%20added”>/quote</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“https://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/Validity_of_the_SAT_for_Predicting_First_Year_College_Grade_Point_Average.pdf]Source[/url”>https://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/Validity_of_the_SAT_for_Predicting_First_Year_College_Grade_Point_Average.pdf]Source[/url</a>]</p>
<p>@jimmy - </p>
<p>“the writing section is the one most correlated with college success” </p>
<p>is not true for us specifically. As for your CR, it’s fine. Don’t worry.</p>
<p>^So you wouldn’t recommend a retake? As in, there’s no benefit over my current score if I got it up to a 700? I could probably raise it up to a 700 without any summer prep, it was what I was averaging in my practice tests anyway.</p>
<p>At any rate, thanks for the info! :)</p>