<p>I sent a request for a rescore of my analytical writing test. </p>
<p>For those who have done this before: How long does it take for ETS to get back to you?</p>
<p>The official word from ETS:</p>
<p>“Rescore requests are processed approximately three weeks after receipt at ETS.”</p>
<p>I will post how long it actually takes after I hear back from them, for people wondering about this in the future.</p>
<p>Looking forward to hearing your results. Do you mind posting your scores and/or a little more about your interaction with ETS?</p>
<p>I’m considering having my AWA rescored as well, but since I don’t trust that ETS got it right the first time I’m worried my scores might go down.</p>
<p>I scored 670 verbal (95%) but only 4.0 AWA (41%). Based on the example essays ETS posted on their site I was anticipating in the 5.5-6.0 range.</p>
<p>I just got it back, so it took just over 3 weeks after they received it. They didn’t change my score and I got a 4.0, which I was surprised about since I expected 4.5-5.0.</p>
<p>did anyone go ahead and do the rescore? I am the editor of a magazine and a published author and I got a 4.0, whereas my sister, a math major, got a 5.5. </p>
<p>something MUST be wrong, but I don’t see how its worth it for ETS to change my score if they get to keep 55 bucks as a result of keeping my score the same. </p>
<p>ANYONE have success with this?</p>
<p>Something is seriously wrong with ETS’s scoring system for these essays. I’m an editor at one of the top magazines in the country and scored 99th percentile on verbal. I was extremely pleased with my essays and expected to get a 6.0. I got a 4.0 (45th percentile) and thought there must have been some mistake. Although I knew how unlikely that was, I coughed up $55 for the rescore just in case. After 4 weeks I got a response saying that the original score was correct.</p>
<p>The essay scoring system is notoriously BS. They’re looking for a hopelessly uncreative and frankly high-school-level piece. I scored 800 verbal and somehow only got a 5.0 on the essay. Don’t worry about it - the AWA score is rather universally considered useless and ignored by graduate admissions committees.</p>
<p>I’m the love child of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I write for the New Yorker Magazine and edit literary anthologies in my spare time. I can juggle, dance the cha-cha, and play the violin at a world-class level. And I only got a 4 on the AWA! I must be that I’m too brilliant for them to understand my awesome writing. It can’t be that–stripped of my credentials–I’m just not a great writer, right? And it can’t be the case that I’m completely unaware of the difference between writing for a test and writing to my Dear Diary! And certainly I’m not so stupid as to think that essay writing and verbal ability are one in the same thing? No, of course not. There must be something wrong with the test! That’s what it must be–if I get a lower score than I want. But if I get a good score, then the test is great. Yes, that’s it. That’s it.</p>
<p>Reasoningform, there’s a reason you’ll find very few graduate programs that care about the AWA score. If gradcoms want to know how well you can write a paper, they’ll ask for, you know, a paper you’ve written.</p>
<p>Congrats on your 6.0, by the way. Backhandedly boasting about it is pretty much the only reason anyone would ever resurrect this thread to defend the AWA.</p>
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<p>Uhm, you think that a standardized test determines who is a great writer, as opposed to an actual record of published work?</p>
<p>Yeah, I bet everyone who calls Random House and mentions their 6.0 AWA score gets offered a million-dollar book contract sight unseen.</p>
I think the ETS has some incompetent people who incapable of understanding advanced critical thinking. They must be fed up with their miserable jobs, I can only imagine what reading thousands of papers from prospective achievers must do for their ego. They certainly have a vendetta against the brighter individual.