<p>I'm glad they are considering it. I would hate selling that extra piece of my soul to the College Board without it being used for anything.</p>
<p>I wrote to Princeton and asked. Here's their reply: </p>
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Since the wiriting portion of the SAT I is a relatively new segment, we will likely develop an impression of its predictive value over time. You should know, though, that we do not use any data--test results, grade averages, rank in class, etc.--in a formulaic way. We consider the whole picture presented by the many interconnected pieces of any given application to estimate a student's promise. The new segment of the SAT will probably be (like the current math and verbal segments) a helpful indicator, but not a decision determining factor unto itself.
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<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>There was a brief interim period of old SAT acceptance last year, but this year the new SAT is a hard and fast rule. I think that the old system was just to account for those keeners who got 1600's in grade 10 and didn't want to retake.</p>
<p>Ok, well I didn't apply ED, but I'm not sure how much that will hurt me. </p>
<p>New SATs
800 math
770 Verbal
670 writing</p>
<p>Superscore 1570/2260</p>
<p>thoughs on new chances, also I'm applying for engineering.</p>
<p>If you look at last year's ED thread, it's clear that princeton thinks the writing section is important. many of the people that got in have high writing scores (750+) and almost all of them are 700+, but that could be a CC thing and not a Princeton thing. I'm wondering if they look at the SAT essay or not, but I don't think they would give me a straight answer about it.</p>
<p>well, i know for a fact that Harvard considers it. At a special session I went to (Harvard, Upenn, Georgetown all together answering questions, etc.), Harvard said that "yes, we do look at the writing section of the SAT reasoning test. We believe that an applicant's writing ability is important..."
they basically said that they care about writing as much as the other sections of the SATs. I was actually quite surprised, becuz most adcom reps tend to give a more ambiguous answer lol.</p>
<p>and Princeton is such a cutting-edge and competitive school, so I'm willing to bet that the writing section will matter.</p>
<p>ok guys, everyone go look at this
<a href="http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/common/cds2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/common/cds2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>page 8. This is last year's, but it says that Princeton will use the Writing Section "For Admission."</p>
<p>put it this way, since the dean of adissions, janet rapelye, is on the collegeboard board of trustees, she probably supports SATS more than most people.</p>
<p>Since you are a math person first and foremost your scores are fine.</p>