<p>I have posted this in the SAT area, however, you might not go there if you child is done with the SAT's. Bottom line, a study cited in USA Today indicates the best SAT predictor of college Freshman grades is the Writing Component, not the other two. Interestingly, the College Board Study results are similar to those by UC, who fought the inclusion. This answers what will likely happen to use of that section for admission. </p>
<p>interesting, does that indicate that skills learned in high school have more to do with grades the first year of college, than the college instruction does?</p>
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<p>Dunno why it should be a surprise. CB's new data actually supports earlier UC studies which showed that the former separate Writing Subject Test had a better correlation to first year grades than did the former SAT 1.</p>
<p>Given the number of times the issue of whether or not the writing component is used by colleges has come up on cc, this suggests that the answer will soon become yes.</p>
<p>This is interesting mostly because the SAT does not grade for innovative, interesting writing, but rewards formulaic, boring, factually-incorrect five-paragraph essays that could be written by 5th-graders.</p>
<p>But that's what we want from our college-educated students, right?</p>
<p>The grammar section is the bigger/more important part of the writing section, not the essay. Those who do the best with grammar, I would think, are those who have done a lot of writing and reading, so the grammar comes very naturally. Lots of reading/writing experience --> success in reading/writing at a college level.</p>
<p>If they did such large studies why didn't they report the results in a meaniful way? Somthing like Students who scored (insert writing score here) on average had a GPA of _____ after their freshman year.</p>