<p>I think colleges look at your essay, lol.</p>
<p>i would think so since it is part of the writing score o.O</p>
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<p>if you mean actually reading your sat essay, they can, but they probably wont. they have plenty of other things to read.</p>
<p>No, andreaaaaaa, I mean the admissions essay… it was a bit of a joke. Although I do give the SAT/ACT essays credit, because they test timed writing, which is something good to have.</p>
<p>I’ll explain why 80m.c./9essay is still an 800:</p>
<p>Given:
Essay scored out of 12
M.C. scored out of 28
Possible raw score=12+28=40
Raw score corresponding to an 800: 37-40 (a curve of 3 points)</p>
<p>If:
Essay score= 9/12
M.C. score= 28/28,
Then:
Raw score=37/40, which corresponds to a scaled score of 800.</p>
<p>Some colleges (Cornell and MIT come to mind) don’t pay attention to the essay score at all. The correlation between essay scores and actual writing ability is minimal; SEVERAL of the top writers at my school scored an 8 or lower, while many average students scored in the 9+ range. That’s because scorers depend more on length than anything else (a professor at MIT researched this). I, personally, scored a 7 the first time around (I only wrote a page), but I then raised my score to a 12 on my retake this fall (I filled all but 3 lines). The thought of admissions counselors using the SAT to confirm applicants’ writing abilities makes me sick.</p>