<p>Also, the writing section is relatively new. It was only introduced four years ago, and a lot of schools are concerned that the exam doesn’t predict the strength of a student like the CR and M sections do for them. I worked with the admissions office at my alma mater, and that was what they told us – they don’t consider the writing section yet because it’s too new and it hasn’t been validated yet.</p>
<p>Collegeisgood, since each Ivy League university is different the value of the W section will be different for each one. At the four schools you asked about, the W score interquartile range represents scores in the very high 600s and the 700s, so I would assume that you would need a score of that nature to be competitive.</p>
<p>Username, first of all, it isn’t possible to score a 2300 if your combined math and critical reading scores is a 1400. You’d have to score 900 points on the writing section, which is impossible.</p>
<p>Secondly, at virtually all colleges you are asked to report your SAT scores separately, not add them together. The College Board score report also reports the scores that way. People add them together to more quickly represent their scores when talking about them, and the schools may add them together subsequently, but there wouldn’t be any “first glance” of a 2100 vs. a 2300 to look at.</p>
<p>If a school doesn’t weight the writing section, an 800CR/800M/500W is going to look better than a 700M/700CR/800W (which is a 2200).</p>