<p>^ He also said that anything 700+ is treated the same. Do you believe that?</p>
<p>I see no reason why he would lie.</p>
<p>Correlation does not imply causation. All of the 2300+ students I know are usually better students than the 2100+ ones.</p>
<p>He says he won’t care, but attaining a 2400 puts you into an elite group of kids that have done it, I don’t know the statistics but I think its less than 500 kids a year? Its the wow-factor, admissions people aren’t robots, they will be impressed.</p>
<p>Yes, but this is 2390 to 2400 we’re talking about, and it’s the WRITING section for pete’s sake.
On the ESSAY.</p>
<p>Even among colleges who like the writing section, there are very few who endorse the essay.</p>
<p>I’m not saying it mandatory, I’m just saying it would a substantial increase.</p>
<p>And what is all this talk about colleges that like the writing section, few endorse the essay?
If a college likes the writing section, they like the essay because its part of the writing section.</p>
<p>Just because something is included in something else that people like doesn’t mean that people will like the thing that is being included.</p>
<p>There was an MIT study that showed that essay scores could be determined by length 90% of the time…a lot of people don’t buy it.</p>
<p>I meant to say a lot of them don’t trust the section as much as the other two.</p>
<p>I retook the SAT Math Achievement Test I after scoring a 792 (this was back when everything wasn’t rounded to the closest 10-digit number). When I retook it, I scored an 800–and, coincidentally, I took the SAT Math Achievement Test II at the same (second) sitting and scored an 800 on that also.</p>
<p>To this day (and it’s been about 35 years since then), I still remember the question which I missed on the original test (which I solved once I got home after leaving the test center).</p>
<p>Yeah, I understand your frustration–but I don’t know of any way to get the perfect score other than a re-take. Good luck to you if you decide to try a re-take of the test.</p>
<p>P.S. In my case, I know that the re-take didn’t help me even a little bit, since my parents couldn’t afford to send me to the Ivy league school where I was admitted. In the long run, I would have been better off concentrating on my college grades and forgetting all about the SAT tests once they were completed.</p>
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<p>They didn’t have financial aid? We sure have come a long way since then…</p>
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<p>meteman: I think I am perfectly capable of achieving repeatedly 2300+, but a 2400 means almost no error throughout the test, and there is a bit of luck involved here (at least for me). I think I could repeatedly achieve no error in math, 1 or 2 errors in CR and 1 or 2 errors in MC writing. So the probability of receiving a 2400 is less than the probability of getting a lower score than a 2390 in my next test.
I think it is wiser for me to give up (pity!) and comfort myself considering that last year, while there were 297 test takers who got 2400, there were another 184 who got 2390, so a total of only 481 kids received a 2390 or better.</p>
<p>DD won a great award her junior year. One of the other recipients had a 2390. When they introduced her, they mentioned her 2390. The score was followed by, “What happened?” and everyone laughed. You got a 1600 on the part that counts and is not subjective. It is not worth it. How much fun will it be to brag about a 2400 when you had to appeal it? A 2390 is much more fun for conversation.</p>
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<p>Most colleges do consider the Writing section.</p>
<p>To the OP: it is not worth it to retake.</p>
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<p>They do consider it, but I think he meant to say that colleges know that it’s more subjective than the other parts.</p>
<p>It is not more subjective than the other sections. If I remember, there was an article stating that the writing score has the highest correlation to college GPA.</p>
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<p>Nonetheless, many colleges consider it as much as they consider the other sections.</p>
<p>I was just watching a baseball game, tigers vs. cleveland indians on ESPN, and a blown call by an umpire cost the Detroit Tiger pitcher a Perfect Game. Kind of reminded me of your situation.</p>
<p>You definetly deserved a 2400, maybe sue? I really don’t know but this is really unfair and sickening. I cant help but feel really bad for you, a 2390 is an amazing score but the circumstances you’re facing are really unfair.</p>
<p>Of the 3000 plus colleges in the U.S., probably less than 10 percent give a hoot about the writing score–and even fewer would care about the difference between a 790 and an 800. A person grades the essay, which means it is subjective and there isn’t just one right answer as on the multiple choice sections.</p>
<p>if you’re getting a 2390 and want the 2400, you probably are applying to that 10% (or however much it is) of colleges that care about the writing score. Also, many colleges consider AP tests, although those are inherently subjective–a multiple choice section + free response section.</p>
<p>BTW does a college see the essay sub-score or just the writing score?</p>
<p>They see it, they even can see the actual essay you wrote.</p>
<p>As I said before, I wanted the 2400 for my own satisfaction (and ego 
) not for colleges. If you look at the admitted students thread for 2014 class, you will see kids with perfect 2400 rejected from schools like Yale, Stanford and others. So a 2400 does not guarantee admission any more than a 2390 does. maybe there is a statistical difference in admission rate between 2400 and 2390 but I am not sure the data about this is even available. Besides, the CB has made clear what the rules are: they will not re-score unless there is a flaw in the system. So that’s it! I better concentrate on other, more constructive, things.</p>