<p>I just ran into this, and thought I'd post it here...just in case any one knows more about this.
I was on UChicago's collegeboard page and I swear that there was some new kind of data uploaded or something of the like. Not only has the range for the CR+M gone up (they're at HYP level now...), but now the writing section scores are being reported? Is UChicago starting to take into account the SAT writing section? </p>
<p>Some colleges who don’t use SAT writing section reports the score anyway. I’m pretty sure U Chicago is not going to start using the writing section.</p>
<p>“The University of Chicago requires either an SAT Reasoning Test or ACT score as part of the application. The writing section of the ACT is not required, and the writing section of the SAT is not considered. Students are not required to submit Subject Test scores.”</p>
<p>It says that RIGHT in the middle of the page.</p>
<p>Yes, but the point was that in previous years they did not even report the writing score (in fact, some claimed that the writing score wasn’t even seen by adcoms), yet this year they did and that thing you quoted is still there (in fact, the SAT ranges are the only thing that seem to have changed). I was just wondering what the significance of the writing section was now that it was being reported (if it changed anything at all). And yes, it is so funny that you couldn’t even properly comprehend my question and give me a sufficient answer yet still try to deride me as being the one who is being a moron in this sisutation. However, herunar, thanks for that response as I didn’t know that some universities do that.</p>
<p>^ he’s right though, the stats have changed - a few weeks ago, they were much lower and the parameter for the SAT Writing section wasn’t there. i don’t think act changed tho…</p>
<p>I don’t know why they suddenly decided to post writing scores, but I highly doubt that they will start using them. Especially in the middle of the application season.</p>
<p>So, essentially, what you are trying to say to me is:</p>
<p>You observed that Collegeboard started reporting UChicago’s average SAT writing scores. So you assumed this change meant that Chicago started considering writing scores in their admission process. If this was the case, why would they leave that block of text in the middle of the page? (esp. in the middle of an application period) You are a moron, just ****.</p>
<p>I asked what it meant, and one of the possibilities, or so I thought, was that perhaps it is being considered (even if slightly) since they reported the data for what their admitted students received on that section. I thought that every other university that did not consider the writing section simply did not report the scores, and so I asked what the significance of them being there truly was (even though everything remained the same on the page besides the data). I did not assume anything, I simply asked if this could be a potential explanation for it. Of course, your deductive reasoning capabilities must be so much greater than mine (since you are, after all, a UoC admit) so apparently what I am able to deduce from my own words is clearly false and what you manage to deduce must be correct. So, yes I am the moron, and I am sorry for wasting your time with this superfluous and borderline idiotic question.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, a professor at another good (top 40) school I visited told me that most colleges consider the writing section regardless of whether they admit it officially. She wasn’t in admissions, so I dunno…</p>