Why do college rankings list only SAT I Reading & Math scores?

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<p>I'm looking at both U.S. News and Forbes college rankings, as well as my high school's college help website. I'm wondering why SAT ranges are listed for -only- the critical reading and math sections of the SAT I, and not the writing section. Anyone know?</p>

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<p>I beleive it is mostly a matter of what and when you are looking at and whether they will make any changes in the future . USnews does in fact publish the middle 50% range on the writing section in its premium edition for each college which provides USNews with those figures. It uses only math and CR for the general ranking page that you find on-line.</p>

<p>The new SAT with writing was first used in March 2006. The USNews figures you see now are those issued by July 2010 and are based on the high school senior class that graduated in 2009, entering college in August 2009 (USNews is literally always a year behind). Those seniors who graduated in 2009 could have taken the SAT that was used for admission anytime from the freshman high school year, which began in 2005, through the January 2009 test. In other words, that group still includes college applicants who could have taken the SAT before there was a writing section and thus you do not have writing scores for all.</p>

<p>There is also the issue that many colleges still don’t use the writing section and when reporting their figures for use such as by USNews do not report on the writing section even though there is a space in the form now for doing so. The result again is that they don’t get published figures on the middle 50% writing scores for many colleges and thus to give any comparison among all colleges, they can only use the CR and math scores.</p>

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<p>The new writing section was first administered in March 2005, not 2006.</p>

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<p>Ahhh it all makes sense now. Thanks! :)</p>

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<p>New question: does the SAT I Writing section hold less weight with colleges that consider it? I’ve got okay scores on CR and math, but I got an 800 on writing…
Also, how would I know if colleges don’t consider the writing section?</p>