Low Writing Score?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Well, my SAT II's are in. Biology: 790. Good. Liturature: 750. I'm with ya... Writing: 650. Um, interesting?</p>

<p>Huge suprise, since I got an 800 in writing on the PSAT. What happened was I thought I was done with the multiple choice and went back finish up the essay. I didn't realize until the last 8 minutes that there were 15 questions left!!!! So, I rushed, and the results... less than kind. Anyway, I know I'm not that bad of a writer. My humanities teacher (who thank god will be writing my recommendation) has told me that I "Far surpass any benchmark used for this class" in writing. I've always got great grades on my writing. I'm president of the school creative writing club, for goodness sake! Anyway, will a good school like Columbia overlook the crappy writing score (my SAT 1 was 1450), or should I plan on taking the standby test in Dec.? Also if I write a good essay and include samples of my GOOD writing, would that help?</p>

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<p>o my goodness... i am so shattered with my sat II scores.
does that mean i have no more chance at columbia ed?</p>

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<p>That sucks man. That writing test can throw people off big time. I apparently skipped 10 questions when I took it in may, I must have filled in the last 10 wrong or something. Alas, I got a 650 too, but I retook it and got a 770. I think mistakes happen a lot on writing because the format is different, so I don't think you're completely screwed by one score. Especially since you had a great rec from your teacher to basically say the test was crap, you should be ok. But in all honestly, what do I really know about the whole process? Good luck if you decide to do standby.</p>