Chance for Columbia Engineering

craisins4lyfe
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:40:52 +0000

wongtong, the general statement that writing ability is an accurate indicator of college success is undeniably true. however, at issue with the sat writing section is how accurate a metric it is for writing ability. all sorts of studies have questioned the credibility of the sat essay in particular [for instance, the finding that pure essay length is a powerful predictor of what score you’ll and the fact that graders have about 2 minutes to grade a single essay (really, 2 minutes to project the quality of a handwritten essay onto an inflexible 6-point scale?!)]. maybe it’s just my bias/wishful thinking as someone who got every multiple choice correct (actually i got one wrong on reading but i guess it was curved up or something) and a relatively measly 8 on the essay, but i’d tend to agree with collegeftw.