<p>I heard somewhere that Wesleyan combines the SAT writing score with the SAT Critical Reading score and averages them to come up with a "verbal score," and that's how they view it in admissions decisions. I tried emailing, but no one responded. Can anyone confirm if this is true? If it is, I think it'd help me, since my writing is a 790 and critical reading is only a 670, and as such, my score would be a 730 "verbal."</p>
<p>I really doubt that's true, but it doesn't really matter-- you got the scores you got, and how they view them is irrelevant. They'll see all your scores and make their decision based on all of them.</p>
<p>I don't know if they do an actual mathematical average, but the admissions officer doing my info session said they look at the writing score to see how it fits with the rest of your record of standardized tests and grades in verbal, English and other humanities. In other words, they look at the whole picture and see if it holds together, rather than worrying about one AP or SAT score.</p>
<p>Haha, yea, I went to an info sessions too. They told us something similar, however, I usually take answers like that as an effort to avoid actually answering the question. But, I suppose I can't blame them, seeing as the Writing is new and they probably don't really know what to do with it yet. But, all the colleges say they look at everything, not just scores.</p>
<p>But don't some schools use a rigid numerical formula to see if applicants make the first cut? I could be wrong but I don't think Wes does.</p>
<p>Right, there's no numerical "first cut". There are at least two individual readers who look at the whole application before any decision is made, and in many cases, a whole committee.</p>