<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I live in NYC and consider Princeton my dream school so one week ago I took the tour of the school finalized by an orientation with the admissions officer.</p>
<p>When asked wheter the new SAT I writing section is important he replied
"We may look at it" he also added that they mainly care about the classic SAT sections- Math and now called Critical Reading. (By the way, the admissions guy was a great person- really informative) So my guess is that the writing section won't be an important part of your application as a matter of fact in order of importance, i'd sat
Most important to Least important
SAT I Math and CR
SAT II's
SAT I Writing section</p>
<p>Is it a good news? Perhaps for some people like me who underperform on the writing section.</p>
<p>Sounds great :). All my top choices are barely considering or not considering the writing section at all (Stanford, Caltech, MIT, and now Princeton)</p>
<p>Hah, that's good for me... since I'm a 1600 math/verbal who misbubbled the last three writing questions and got a 740.</p>
<p>It may not count as heavily, however, as long as US News is considering it in their yearly rankings, than it will likely have some effect.</p>
<p>yup. i can verify. i was in the admission session also. they arent looking at writing, but they also will want to see a good score, so 650+ is fine right now.</p>
<p>i got a 680 on it.</p>
<p>Very good point, ICagirl. Do you guys thank that these colleges really compete for rankings on us news?</p>
<p>Absolutely. Although every ranking system has some flaws, and none can account for personal preference, most people would be lying if they said that rank didn't matter at all to them. And if it matters to the students, it also matters to the colleges looking to attract those students. However, I personally believe that most elite schools offer students approximately the same educational quality.</p>
<p>but since we are all here, i think we are opinionated enough to admit that princeton deserves that #1 spot, haha</p>
<p>despite their annual protestations, there is little doubt that the colleges do in fact compete for rankings. they tailor their admissions practices to the rankings criteria (see the ED explosion, to maximize yield), and they often fudge the numbers they submit to the magazine. there are allegations, for example, that certain administrators have assigned unfairly low reputation scores to their peer institutions in the annual survey that forms the basis for the all-important peer assessment score (25% of overall score and ranking).</p>
<p>I find the response quite interesting because many of the schools that require SAT IIs required the SAT II writing section in years past. I had anticipated that the schools would only require 2 SAT IIs because they now had the SAT I Writing section.</p>