How should admissions officials judge applicants’ writing skills?

“Some colleges have found ways to strike an uneasy balance. Princeton now requires applicants to submit a graded piece of high school writing, preferably in English or history. The university hopes that a written exercise for class, which is not timed and comes at no extra cost, would more accurately represent a student’s writing ability.” …

Opinion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colleges-are-abandoning-standardized-essay-tests-bad-idea/2018/10/08/c91e452a-cb2f-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e8ee7dcffc80

Writing skills should be judged by college admissions officers in any manner that the applicant wishes to be judged.