<p>I don’t think the SAT is really that super-important. I mean, back when I took it I scored a 1460 combined and a 510 on the SAT II Writing. Nowadays that wouldn’t even break 2000, but I got into plenty of great schools. I think you also might want to be concerned about your SAT II scores which test a bit more in-depth knowledge (in my case I got an 800/790 on Chem/Math IIc).</p>
<p>Also I maintain the SAT Writing section just has terrible prompts. I remember reading them and thinking they were the dumbest ideas on earth, and I wound up spending a good portion of the time thinking how anyone could even care about what they wanted us to talk about. On the GRE writing they had moderately more interesting ones and I got a 5.5/6.</p>