<p>I went to College night last night. A student asked an admissioins director how the colleges were handling the New SAT1..he stated that this years juniors, class of 2006, will have the verbal and math looked at and the writing section will not carry too much wait. They think there are going to be too many kinks that need to be worked out, and want to see how the numbers play out compared to other factors. While they will note the score, it won't be counted as a factor. IE: If a student wrote BRILLIANT essays, but did extremely poorly on the verbal and the writing, it could raise some flags. But overall, the writing section won't have much impact yet at the private schools. Apparently many of the private schools have been discussing this. In the California systems, the UC's are still figuring out what to do, and the CSU's will follow the UC's decision.</p>
<p>So my sophmore D will really be the first class truely impacted on a large scale with the new writing section, unless there are too many issues.
Lucky them.</p>
<p>ok wow, this is the first time i have heard this, and it doesn't seem fair, we had the same exact writing sat ii put into the new sat as old test takers, and people that did well, did well for a reason, idk im dubious of this assertion by the admission's officer unless private schools doesnt mean top 30 et cetera. idk..it seems unfair to just not count the writing part, it has an affect on your other score because it's a 4 hour test.</p>
<p>Many many private schools are still in limbo and according to the admission guy, who has been discussing this with other admission people around the country, and it is a very small community, this is what he said- that it won't have much weight because they aren't sure about the grading, the way it will compare to other factors, etc. They are giving it time to work out the problems. Now, of course this is not ALL schools, but many.</p>
<p>I don't see why they can't just compare what % someone scores on the writing section to what % the rest of the applicant pool scores. I tihnk it will be mostly be % for a few years</p>