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<p>I think they are uploading the results for the rest of us. Hope I get a decent writing score.</p>
<p>^^Thanks! Hopefully tomorrow!</p>
<p>Funnily enough, I got an 8, though I had a 36 on the English (=combined 32) and I’d previously gotten 11 on the SAT essay. Oh well, I don’t need some bureaucrat to validate my writing ability.</p>
<p>Still waiting northeastmom…arghhh I want to know!</p>
<p>My writing score still isn’t up ):</p>
<p>ugh… still waiting… ten minutes to go, maybe?</p>
<p>Well, this morning my son still does not have his writing score.</p>
<p>My score is not up either.</p>
<p>finally up! got a 10 writing, 33 english/writing (34 english)</p>
<p>Yes, it finally posted!</p>
<p>I got an 8. Here’s to hoping for a 10 on the June test…I think I just need to write more. A lot more.</p>
<p>10… Bye Bye ACT</p>
<p>10 on first ACT, 8 on this ACT. Oh well. I went up to a 32 composite, and that’s all that matters. 
(brought my 35 english down to 31 e/w, hahaha)</p>
<p>i got an 8… 77% tile… brought my 35 on english down to a 31…</p>
<p>how much do colleges weigh the essay section?</p>
<p>this blows… :-x</p>
<p>now i’m retaking with more stress. and to think i was initially happy with my 33.</p>
<p>10</p>
<p>i wrote about how teachers shouldn’t argue for regulation of television because it would undermine the principles of free enterprise that the US was founded on…LOL. I also said that arguing that a certain amount of programming should be dedicated to education would send the signal that watching too much television could be a good thing…so i proposed that teachers stress learning through other mediums that dont use television. ha lame i know.</p>
<p>Haha briguy - I wrote about free market too</p>
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<p>I asked this in the parent’s section. I bumped up the question once already. So far nobody has replied.</p>
<p>Still waitiing for scoresss… ARGH just checked :(</p>
<p>got a 12! TOODLES, ACT</p>
<p>Very few colleges will say exactly what they do with the essay. My guess is that colleges started requiring the ACT with writing about the same time the SAT writing became part of the reasoning test. I’ve seen a few colleges that say they value the SAT writing score, so presumably they also do the ACT writing score. Others, though, say they’re still evaluating it, and a few make no bones about not even caring about it at all. To find out specific colleges’ approaches, you need to look at the common data set for each one.</p>
<p>While I think the English section offers a truly standardized basis of comparison among testers, it’s really hard to standardize grading on the essay. I heard second hand from someone who used to grade the SAT essay that the graders would get together, get drunk, and see how many they could grade in an evening. (They get paid pennies per essay, apparently, so speed is everything.) The lack of standardization is why some colleges are reluctant to put a lot of stock in the essay. In addition, some colleges are on record as saying that they believe good writing requires time for planning, drafting and revising, so an essay of this nature isn’t something they value. </p>
<p>I guess the takeaway is that if you’re going to mess up on any part of the ACT, it’s best if it’s the essay. Thank goodness the essay score doesn’t bring down the composite, because my D was one of the many who got an 8 with a 35 English score!</p>