<p>(This is all from the class of 2014)</p>
<p>Brown:
2131 Applicants with 800 in CR and 23% accepted
2148 applicants with 800 in M and 20.4% accepted</p>
<p>1615 applicants with 800 in W and 24.3% accepted </p>
<p>Dartmouth:
34.4% acceptance rate for those with an 800 in CR
20.8% acceptance rate for those with an 800 in M
32.2% acceptance rate for those with an 800 in W</p>
<p>Stanford:
17% admit rate for those with an 800 in CR
12% admit rate for those with an 800 in M</p>
<p>19% admit rate for those with an 800 in W</p>
<p>Notice that the 800 in W was rarer in the Brown example, and there was a higher acceptance rate for those with a perfect writing scores at Brown and Stanford, and the rate was very high compared to perfect math scores at Dartmouth. Yes, scores arent everything, but with an 800 in writing myself and low-mid 700s in the other two, I see that writing is always downplayed and I believe that this is evidence for the contrary.</p>
<p>Don’t overanalyze stats, they might just be a coincidence. You don’t know what each applicant’s overall package was.</p>
<p>I realize that stats arent as important anymore…BUT do these mean that someone with an 800 in writing as opposed to an 800 in math has a greater chance at these universities?</p>
<p>wat it might mean is that the 800 in writing might have better written essays? That could be a possibility</p>
<p>lol @r619dude. That’s certainly a reason. Another is that an 800 in math just isn’t that hard for any decent math student at a decent public/private high school. The difficulty rarely extends into Pre-calculus topics (I’m not faulting this, there’s no better way given different levels of math education), and thus the only barrier to an 800 for someone who has taken math up to Calc is consistency. Someone who qualified for USAMO could mess up one problem and get a 780; colleges realize this and value SAT Math less. The writing and crit reading sections on the other hand are much more indicative of a student’s actual proficiency in those topics, and thus a good score in those sections will be much more highly valued.</p>