<p>How much more important is your CR+M score than your CR+M+W score? </p>
<p>For example, would a student’s score of 1390/2100 be equal to or lesser than another student’s score of 1460/2100 in the eyes of an admissions officer? If lesser, how much so?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>depends on the school</p>
<p>OK, how about for most schools?</p>
<p>It’s only 70 points. And the scores vary as much as 50 points per section per seating for any given student.</p>
<p>So not that much. 70 points won’t make the difference between getting in or being rejected.</p>
<p>For most of the schools I know about, the writing score isn’t used very much. I’d put a lot of the emphasis on the CR+M</p>
<p>my own speculation? take it at face value but logic tells me if you are applying to engineering programs writing will be discounted, and if you are applying to more “alternative” schools (reed, wesleyan, haverford, vassar) writing will be emphasized.</p>
<p>i think if you inquire and emial the college as to how they consider writing scores, they will tell you how much they consider it. for instance, a place like Reed College explicitly states that they do not consider writing as part of evaluation. some colleges will say something like “as of this moment, we are trying to see whether the writing has any impact on predicting college performance, so we are adopting a wait-and-see appraoch” or something.</p>
<p>either way each college differs, so it would be easiest if you just gave whatever college you are applying an email.</p>
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<p>well there goes my theory.</p>
<p>The reason Reed doesn’t use it is that Reed students will almost never encounter an analogous exam in a Reed class, so the ability to write quickly has no predictive value (and Reed has no journalism classes 
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<p>A Duke representative told me they look at Writing as an SAT II. Johns Hopkins said the same thing.</p>
<p>UChicago does not assess writing scores either.</p>
<p>As of now, most schools more or less ignore the writing section because they don’t know enough about it to use it for admission. This will probably change in 10 years, once enough students have taken the writing section for them to start comparing. Most scholarships for institutional merit money show scores on the 1600 scale. It’s kind of one of those deals where that’s the way it was always done, so now they don’t want to change it.</p>
<p>I thought that the writing section would be considered as an SATII for most schools</p>
<p>University of Florida isn’t looking at writing for admissions purposes</p>