<p>many people, in order to make their essay more powerful and they argument more persuasive, tend to make up books or historical situations that never occured. This is ok to do in the SAT because the graders will never have time to check if you facts are correct; plus, the do not care about the accuracy of you information, they just care about how well you can write.
my concern is that if the colleges decide to look at your sat essay in order to compare it to the personal statements of you application, and they find that you made up a lot of facts, how would that impact your application?</p>
<p>I answered your question in the other topic, Pimpa. Colleges won't do what you say they might. It just won't happen. They won't even get a chance to read your SAT essay, because the College board doesn't send them the essay you wrote, just the score you recieved.</p>
<p>no, for the new sat colleges can now look at your essay if they choose</p>
<p>i am not possitive about this, but I heard that the collegeboard will provide the colleges with a copy of you essay so that they can compare it to your college essays and evaluate if you were the one that wrote the latter. In case that they find taht you application essays are incredible, but u did not write well in your sat, they ask for explanation. They will do this to try to protect the people who write the essays themselves from those who have their essays written by outside counselors or teachers...
for those who will be going crazy about this...dont worry...they will know that the sat essay is a 25 minute rought draft, while you application essay was revised 100 times</p>
<p>Oh isH! really? My bad, pimpa.</p>
<p>Where did you hear that? That can't be right. Colleges will never see your SAT essay, let alone your raw score for the multiple choice. They only see your scaled score for each section out of 800.</p>
<p>Yes colleges can look at your essays and same for the act writing section; they actually send the copy of your original writing. But I doubt they would use the writing section to compare with your application essay because for the essay in writing section, you only have 25 minutes or so, but for your app essay, you can use as much time as you want, you can look up the dictionary, and correct as many time as u wish. And obviously, what they are looking for when they are reading your app essay is not your writing skills(correct spell, grammar, etc even though these are very important too) but your personality and character.</p>
<p>Yes, I'm 100% positive they can look at your essays from now on.</p>
<p>yeah, a guy from FSU was at my school last week and said that they can just use our SAT essay if we dont want to write an application essay</p>
<p>nice oxymoron by the way: "untrue facts"</p>
<p>for some reason that makes me nervous. does that mean i need to worry about wat poitn i argue becuase I usually just choose whatever I have better examples for, I don't want to be held accountable for that beyond the test day.</p>
<p>yes colleges do have access to your SAT Essays from March and on.</p>
<p>However, most college reps say that they will not consider the essay into consideration until about 2006/2007 or so.</p>
<p>I doubt they will read your SAT essay as they will have a million other things to do.</p>
<p>I think the best general rule is to avoid making up evidence to support your point if possible, but if you have to make something up, make it either a personal observation or be vague enough that it won't raise eyebrows. For example, instead of saying "in the February 12th issue of the Wall Street Journal", say "In a recent journal article." And by all means be reasonable.</p>
<p>My advice is to prepare a bit by picking a favorite book that has lots of themes that could be used in a variety of essays and brush up on the characters and situations. Also, pick a small piece of history and do the same. You may not be able to use what you've worked on, but there's a good change you will...</p>
<p>Well, primitivefuture, I think what they might do is when there are two or more really competitive and similar candidates and they cannot find anything else to judge on, they might use the qualities of essays on sat to tie breaker..
They don't have to read all million others' but they can read whenever they feel like it or when they think they need to, and any information admins get from you will affect the result..</p>
<p>Just know Gulliver's Travels, World War II, and current events. You can use these examples for almost any prompt.</p>
<p>the CB will automaticlly send the essay to any schools that receive the new sAT scores.</p>
<p>my question was if untrue facts in the essay could affect my application...and im talking something such as making up a book and an author, which im sure is not going to be a problem in the sat...im worried about the apps...im not going to say that michael jordan was born in asia or that washington was the first colombian president...im going to say reasonable stuff...im just wondering if college ppl will care about that in case they read my essay...</p>
<p>Honestly, you could make up a personal experience and get a 6.</p>
<p>the above was posted the exact same in another thread, probably a scam, anyways, i'm just a freshman, but i'm wondering, is it hard to finish that essay in 25 minutes?</p>