<p>I was wondering as the title says, what section of the SAT do you think adcoms value the most? I don't think a 800 in Writing is necessarily of the same "value" or weight when juxtaposed to a high score in another section. I don't think all sections were created equal as it be. Your thoughts?</p>
<p>It would probably have to be Math and then Reading, seeing as statistically not all American students are scoring well across the nation in those two subjects, nor are a lot of them on par with students from elsewhere (Europe, Asia).</p>
<p>Take my highschool for example. It’s a private school in a very small community - we prolly only have 10 highschools, half public and half private. I attend a private school, which most people consider more academic in terms of the rigor of courses. But, we start our Math at Algebra I for freshmen year - even though most of us took that in the 8th grade. The public schools where I live only teach up to pre-algebra, and so there’s a discrepancy when private school kids and public school kids attend my highschool since we’re taught different math.</p>
<p>I know that’s just one case, but I’ve read that in general we’re not doing so well in Math and Reading. And I think part of it is because schools pay attention to only two groups 1) gifted kids, 2) slower learning kids. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I think a lot of schools often forget to challenge ‘average’ kids. They spend more time elevating gifted kids into honors classes, or trying to get slow kids to catch up - not a bad thing at all - but it’s at the expense of regular kids not getting the same amount of attention, or instruction, causing them to slack off. Teachers are oftentimes overwhelmed, too, with having to teach a class that caters to all kids, where there are no special classes available - causing some of them to get bored with the pace etc.</p>
<p>Anyways, that’s just what I think. </p>
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<p>It depends on the college and your major.</p>
<p>Most people do better in math, and in the Brown admission statistics page also makes me think CR is the one you get most notice for doing well in. Doing poorly on any section is bad though.</p>
<p>For any STEM major, definitely math.</p>
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lol, I grew up in a small community - we had one high school and students were bused from a 15 mile radius.</p>
<p>I would have to say math and reading are equally important if you’re an undecided major. Of course, for engineering, math is much more important, and for majors in literature and such, critical reading would be given more weight. Of course, this isn’t to say that writing isn’t important either, or that it has the highest average score per student. On the contrary, writing has the lowest average at 489, while math is at 514 and reading is at 497.</p>
<p>The answer is always that it depends on the situation. However, overall, I would say the CR section. Clearly, that is not going to be the case for STEM candidates or any course of study where the math is so important. </p>
<p>A lot of the most selective schools look at the SATs on a 4000 possible score, looking at 2 SAT2 scores in addition to the three in the SAT1.</p>
<p>Interesting sentiments expressed here. I totally overlooked how ones major would effect it. I’m highly sympathetic to the idea that the CR is the most important(just because I scored highly in it. Very biased and far from objective)</p>
<p>For a general student, not majoring in math intensive major, the critical reading is more important as a diagnostic in that reading comprehension and the thinking skills tested in the SAT1 Critical Reading are very important. Just about every academic subject requires a lot of reading. </p>
<p>Still terms like “average” and “most” are not at all helpful in the extremes at all.</p>
<p>CR, than math, than writing.</p>
<p>the SAT seems primarily to test critical thinking anyways, since it basically shows how well the person can take the test. CR seems to promote the most critical thinking, wheras writing does the least</p>
<p>definitely depends on the college and major. As an example, Earlham cares most about CR, whereas Rose-Hulman cares most about math. Obvious reasons :P</p>
<p>Common sense would tell you that for more visual, scientific majors, such as math, engineering, chemistry, etc., SAT Math would be more helpful in predicting success. For language-based majors such as psychology, english, history, etc. CR would be more predictive. However that’s just my opinion.</p>
<p>I think Critical Reading is the section that is given the most value towards, disregarding one’s intended major.</p>
<p>I’m inclined to say certainly not writing, because it seems like most schools base admittance on CR+M score.</p>
<p>Which is depressing, because I did well on the writing section. I did well on all the sections, really (same score in all 3), so meh.</p>