<p>You can find out a college’s policy if you can track down their common data set. Quicker, but less complete, is the College Board’s “College Finder”:</p>
<p>[College</a> MatchMaker - Type of School](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>If you find a college and click on the SAT, AP, CLEP tab, it lists the testing policies, often including the treatment of the writing section.</p>
<p>My impression is that quite a few LACs have changed to giving the writing section considerable weight after the college board’s study found that it had, by a slight margin, more predictive ability than M or CR.</p>