Question about sat/act

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>i’m in a bad situation. i’m guessing these questions have been asked before but i’m freaking out and need a clear answer.</p>

<p>i just got my sat score (V:750 M:800 W:620!!!) and as you can see my writing score is quite bad. it actually went down from 650.
i sent this already along with pretty good SAT 2s and now i’m freaking out because of the writing score. </p>

<p>Q1: would they just look at the 650 instead of the 620, or consider both??
Q2: does the fact that my score went down reflect very badly or would they understand it as an unlucky circumstance?
Q3: if i got a better score on the ACT(35), do they put more emphasis on the ACT score or does my SAT still hurt me just as much??</p>

<p>thank you for any response. now i’m going to have to go buy a pound of chocolate and ice cream since i’ve pretty much eaten everything in my kitchen in the past hour.</p>

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<p>Stop freaking out. Your SAT scores are fine. My writing went down 70 points! They will consider the highest one.
I doubt it reflects badly. SAT scores are not everything. Check out the incoming student profile here <a href="http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>While 28% scoring a 750+ in writing was admitted, 17% scoring a 650-690 was admitted. </p>

<p>The difference is 11%. So only 11% more students scoring a 750+ was admitted. </p>

<p>As you can see SATscores are not everything.</p>

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<p>If you got a 35 ACT you should only submit that.</p>

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<p>well, he needs to send II's.</p>