<li><p>Anybody else do this? Better, worse, or same score?</p></li>
<li><p>$50?!?! I could take a whole other SAT for that much money. They read your essay in 1 minute (2 people read for 30 seconds), so that comes out to $50 a minute, $3000 an hour.</p></li>
<li><p>Is there a deadline for requesting it?</p></li>
<li><p>I’ll later post my essay verbatim (or just give the image of it) and will see if you guys think I should do it. I got a 780 on writing (11 essay; I really thought it was perfect). If I got/get a 12 then that would be an 800.</p></li>
<li><p>Please don’t think I am neurotic. I am trying to increase my chance for merit-based scholarships.</p></li>
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<p>Are you sure the 12 would raise you to an 800? Even then, colleges look mostly at CR+M (so I've heard). Besides that, it would probably be a waste of time/money. Chances are they won't change it...</p>
<p>Essays are very subjective. I think colleges realize the difference between an 11 and 12 is someone's opinion, not the quality of the writer. That said, are you sure a 12 would raise your score to an 800? I had a 780 writing with a 12 essay, so.......</p>
<p>I had 4 wrong on MC with no omits. I'm pretty sure that that with a 12 essay is an 800, since each essay point is like 20 points.</p>
<p>Also, is ti possible to get a lower score than the original? If so, will it count over my old score?</p>
<p>No way is 4 wrong and any essay an 800. Just refer to this...</p>
<p>If you missed 4, your multiple choice raw score is 44.</p>
<p>aruff - I got 4 wrong as well + 12 essay. 780. Though the curves can vary. However, it would be very strange for 4 wrong to yield an 800 on any of the three sections.</p>
<p>@stix2400</p>
<p>I took the May SAT. I guessed my raw score kind of sicne the detailed report isn't in it. Here is what CB's site says verbatim:
"Writing 780 99%
Multiple Choice 75 (score range: 20-80)<br>
Essay 11 (score range: 2-12) "</p>
<p>MC 75 means you only got three wrong.</p>
<p>Yeah a MC 75 doesn't mean -4. It's probobly -3.</p>
<p>I don't understand. If I got 75 out fo 80, then that would mean I got 76 right and 4 wrong because 76 -(1/4 of 4)=75.</p>
<p>Unless they've changed things up since when I took it, which wasn't that long ago, there are only 48 multiple choice questions in all. </p>
<p>Interesting info for you:</p>
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The multiple choice writing section accounts for approximately 70% and the essay counts for approximately 30% of your total raw score, which is used to calculate your 200-to-800 score. </p>
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<p>If you got 75 right and an 11 essay to = 780 </p>
<p>then a 12 essay could very well bring you up to a 790 (maybe) but it's highly unlikely that you'd get an 800 since so much weight is given to MC questions.</p>
<p>I don't think its worth the $50, especially since you did get an 11 on the essay and the fact that many colleges only look at math and critical reading.</p>
<p>Afruff, you don't quite get the raw score calculation. There are 49 questions and your score is based off of how many of those you get right (duh). However, it isn't simply minus 1 of your scaled score (out of 80) for every missed question, its minus 1 of your RAW score (out of 49). In other words, minus one gives you a raw score of 48. Minus four gives you a raw score of 44 (45-1/4*4). Then, depending on the test, these scores are translated to the 80 point scale. A 44 raw score usually yeilds a score lower than 75.</p>