Which SAT score would you rather have?...

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<p>Okay, so my two friends both recieved the same SAT score, but different sub scores, and they asked me which score I think is better (I have no clue why :/)</p>

<p>here are their scores:</p>

<p>friend 1: M 600 Cr 600 Wr 700 1900
friend 2: M 610 Cr 620 Wr 670 1900</p>

<p>friend number one argues that his score is better becuase colleges don't care about the Wr section, and that his Cr + M score is higher than friend 2's.</p>

<p>friend number two aruges that his score is better because he made it to 700 on one of his sections, but friend number 2 was only in the 600's for all his sections.</p>

<p>honestly, i wanted to tell them both that both their scores are sub par for the schools they want to go to (but that would be rude :) )...</p>

<p>so, which score would you rather have? (assuming that you don't want to go to an ivyleague/top tier school...hehe).</p>

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<p>The second one, since so many colleges don't care about the W score.</p>

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<p>Which schools do they want to go to?</p>

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<p>i think the differences are negligible, because that 600 could've been a 620 with a different scale. but i personally would prefer the second, because CR+M is still valued "higher" than W</p>

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<p>The second one.</p>

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<p>except at Loyola Marymount -- the only college that weighs the writing section higher than the other two.</p>

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<p>they're looking at ivies and other top tiers (HUGE reaches i know.....but they got these scores in 10th grade..so i'm sure they'll improve......and they're URMS...</p>

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<p>^ you didn't tell us that...</p>

<p>lol i'm sure they will both score well in 12th grade. see collegebound40's thread on correlation between 10th and 12th grade SAT scores. they will both gain ~190 pts per year, though it varies from person to person, of course.</p>

<p>as URMs, they should have great odds</p>

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<p>In general, the second one is better because the writing is by far the most useless of the sections (not saying writing is useless, just saying colleges don't have a lot of respect for that new section yet).</p>

<p>Personally, I would still take the second, since I am applying to engineering schools and I would need my math to look as good as possible. XD</p>

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<p>^ lol.....like 10 pts. is a big difference :)</p>

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<p>^ Millions are made up of singles. =P</p>

<p>...actually, in this age, millions are probably made up of zeros and ones. XD</p>

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<p>At the UC's, writing is weighed even more if I'm correct.</p>

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<p>Email this question to Admissions Officers. They will think that you're doing a psychological experiment on them.</p>

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<p>lol.....yeah, probably</p>

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<p>bump, just b/c</p>

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<p>MJ93,</p>

<p>Loyola Marymount weighs the writing section more highly than the other two? Are you serious? Details please! How do you know this?</p>