<p>It’s an interesting question. I am even more curious to know if schools, and not UVA in particular but all schools, place more weight on the actual score of the essay as opposed to the overall writing score.</p>
<p>If a person aces the multiple choice and gets a really average essay score, they are still going to have gaudy writing score, but it might not help a student if colleges are paying more attention to the actual essay score than the writing score as a whole.</p>