<p>Xiggi,
if an admissions dean were willing to incur the wrath of some of his staff - and maybe some writing profs (or TA’s - easier to manage) he could have the answer after a couple of days of essay re-evaluation. My hypothetical dean would then have a half-dozen or so post-traumatic and very crabby academics (after reading essays for a couple of days) and a speadsheet with the CB scores and his college’s scores. </p>
<p>What my son learned from the SAT II Writing (where, I suspect, the QA was much higher) was that if you write a good but short essay you get a 9. If you then read the two pages of PR tips (that you were too stubborn to read before because you know you are a good writer) and retake the test a month later, you get a 12.</p>