US News ranking criteria and why colleges look at CR+M more than W?

<p>Hmm, now this is pretty confusing.</p>

<p>I got a pretty unpleasant overall grade on my SAT, but my CR+M is good. If schools really don’t care about the writing, (i’m talking about top 10 schools though) then should I just not retake the test? I can boost up my overall by around 100, but there would be no much difference on CR+M (could possibly be lower; i’d never know)</p>