<p>...my total writing score is a 770? I just didn't write a very good essay on that day. </p>
<p>I'm also a bit worried that admissions officers will think my 8 is incongruous with the quality of my personal statements and supplemental essays, and therefore get suspicious about the validity of my personal essays.</p>
<p>Any opinions?</p>
<p>dont worry u will be fine.
sat essays are not of much value imo</p>
<p>Haha most colleges dont care about your WR score ,not to mention your essay ;)</p>
<p>Thanks for your input. It’s just that I’ve read, in a couple different places, that colleges do use the essay itself for admissions and for determining whether or not the student got a lot of help on personal essays. </p>
<p>Is that not true?</p>
<p>No, I do no think so. I just heard that colleges have access to your essay. They do not necessarily read it, especially if they see you have a 770 writing score.</p>
<p>Wait, colleges can read your essay? Mine was terrible! I got a 770 as well - 80/8.</p>
<p>somes colleges do look at the SAT essay, but that’s quite rare - admissions officers already have enough reading materials!</p>
<p>also, colleges know what it’s like to write under pressure - it’s totally different from how you might write in your personal statement
I wouldn’t worry. </p>
<p>also you did better than I did - the writing section and my 9 essay kept my 2360 from turning into a 2400</p>
<p>whoa dumplings, how did u get a 2360?? for my first time, i got a 2220, and I am taking the SAT in June again. u wanna give any tips/hints that helped get wat u got, like anything u studied,or wat materials u used?? thnx</p>
<p>This thread is very interesting, I always thought that colleges actually cared about the essay portion of the writing section</p>
<p>yeah I got 2290 the first time
760 math, 800 CR, 730 writing 10 essay
I was going to stick with this score, but thankfully Asian parents pushed me to take it again</p>
<p>800 math, 800 CR, 760 writing 9 essay
I mostly did hard math problems out of the Kaplan 2400 book, I guess it helped?
also just practiced writing section more - I suck at writing under pressure
in hindsight i should’ve practiced writing more essays that way…</p>
<p>I think some colleges (Dartmouth, for example), use the SAT/ACT essay for placement, but not admission. And I’m sure they just use it as a part of ur placement. I’m assuming u got an 80 MC to have that high of a writing score, and that looks really good too. Colleges understand that you’re not going to write a perfect essay every time, and also that each essay is graded subjectively. I wouldn’t worry about it…a 770 is very good.</p>