<p>I was wondering how important the writing section is. It's just one essay..</p>
<p>I don’t know. I was wondering about that, too.</p>
<p>Not important.
Some top schools, like Caltech and Univ. of Chicago don’t even require it.
I have not seen any schools that report the average writing/english score of accepted students.
The composite score is the key number.
Good luck.</p>
<p>What would be more important: English subscore or English/Writing subscore?</p>
<p>English score. Writing doesn’t matter unless you are going into something concerning writing.(ex. journalism)</p>
<p>English for sure.
The English/Writing # does not matter much at all, at probably most every school.
My opinion.
Good luck.</p>
<p>@ justmae, don’t worry too much about writing. there are a lot of other things in admissions that are much more important-----like your composite, especially at top schools. Just get the best score you can and hope for the best as admissions are competitive, especially at top schools, HPYS and others, where from the ed threads on cc it looks like hook, legacy, special talent, etc, is probably more important than the SAT or ACT. there many posts where perfect 4.0 / 2400-36s are deferred or rejected at top schools, but the average person - like 3.2 / 2000-29s gets in because they have some kind of hook, like strong legacy. I understand why schools do that… anyway, just do the best you can and don’t worry about a writing score.
j/m/o</p>
<p>It certainly plays a factor however–don’t just blow it off. At all the colleges I have looked into (fairly selective-upper selective), they require ACT with Writing.</p>