Chance for Columbia Engineering

isabelwhatx
Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:48:22 +0000

If you want to disagree that’s fine, but I have my sources and I believe in what I said. A lot of schools during college fairs will only put up their middle score range. Why? The writing score pales in comparison to math and critical reading. I had a college advisor (who, btw, spends his life getting kids into college) and he told me not to worry about my writing score at all (I got a 740 in math, a 710 in critical reading, and a 650 in writing).

"Scores on the new writing portion of the SAT exam have no influence on admissions decisions, said 32 percent of the college admissions officials who were surveyed. "

That is a very, very large statistic. The writing section is too new to be taken seriously. Colleges don’t know how it determines a student’s future success just yet, unlike their experience with the math and critical reading sections. The SAT is used to predict success in college. A lot of colleges just view the writing section as too young to be taken seriously. And the other colleges don’t hold it to such high esteem as the math and critical reading,

If you are deluded into thinking that the writing score is just as, or more, important, than be my guest. However, I stand by what I said.