The writing section!

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<p>A year ago, Kaplan did a survey about which colleges cared about the SAT Writing and which didn't. It varies quite a bit at every tier of admissions. Their complete results are still online:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.kaptest.com/Kaplan/Article/College/SAT/Learn-About-the-SAT/CO_sat_surveyresults.html;jsessionid=FCEWCVZ44TXKBLA3AQJXBM3MDUCBE2HC#equal%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.kaptest.com/Kaplan/Article/College/SAT/Learn-About-the-SAT/CO_sat_surveyresults.html;jsessionid=FCEWCVZ44TXKBLA3AQJXBM3MDUCBE2HC#equal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This survey is at least a year old, so some colleges may have changed policies. Still, it gives you a good big-picture snapshot of the situation. The takeaway: writing section policy varies enormously from school to school.</p>

<p>wzzzz, I agree with you that more schools will begin (or are beginning) to look at the Writing section now that it's becoming more established. I also think it's pretty likely that those schools who said last year that they were giving the Writing section equal weight, are continuing to give it equal weight.</p>