<p>Direct from CB:</p>
<p>National percentiles for the SAT Reasoning Test's writing section will be available in the fall of 2006. </p>
<p>I thought they were early november? then mid- November? now it will be like a year!!!!! </p>
<p>Has anyone been able to access their "detailed acore report" from the November testing?</p>
<p>I thought they had estimates by "early" November and the ACTUAL percentiles by fall of 2006?</p>
<p>ohhhhh</p>
<p>still, that's annoying</p>
<p>i think detailed score reports come out tomorrow or monday</p>
<p>I wonder if the colleges that were going to use the writing score were counting on seeing the estimated percentiles. If it's true that the percentiles won't be available until well after this year's seniors have been admitted, then is it possible that these schools will not consider the writing section at all or at least very little (for this year's seniors)?</p>
<p>Ya, being on the class of 2006 really stinks.</p>
<p>Anyone know the estimated percentiles? I can't find them online, maybe they were sent out with the Nov scores? I took Oct :-/</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge, those estimated percentiles have not been released.</p>
<p>Futhers the notion that colleges will largely have to use the Writing section as an SATII.</p>
<p>But almost everyone who has taken SAT II Writing and New Writing agrees that SAT II was easier because it had a better curve. They are two completely different tests.</p>
<p>for the multiple choice subscore, couldn't we refer to the PSAT's percentiles?...those would provide a fair approximation.</p>
<p>"Futhers the notion that colleges will largely have to use the Writing section as an SATII."</p>
<p>I laugh everytime i see someone post that, because that person's lowest score is always writing.</p>
<p>You laugh...but how could they possibly compare two sections that have years of data behind them to one that has no statistics whatsoever? I never said they wouldn't use it; they will, but it would be insane for them to give WR as much weight as the other sections when they have no data to go from.</p>
<p>And I never said WR section and its SAT II were comparable; I said WR would be WEIGHTED as an SATII.</p>
<p>you say that they have nothing to compare it to...but at most of these schools 99% of the applicants will be sending their scores in with three numbers, simply, they have the rest of the applicant pool to compare it with, and thats who they have to compare it to.</p>
<p>The years of data behind Math & Verbal SAT scores are much more than the scores themselves. Colleges run correlational studies that match up SAT's, HS GPA, etc. against College GPA. So while the old SAT sections are proven to predict college success to some extent, there is no such proof for the New SAT Writing. Hence that is why many colleges have taken the attitude that they will consider the SAT Writing, but not freak out about it unless a score is exceptionally high or exceptionally low.</p>
<p>Exactly, stambliark41</p>