How much does SAT writing matter?

jennieling
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:39:33 +0000

The writing definitely matters. I am not sure if the two people who are telling you that the writing section is “useless” are just trying to be sarcastic or not, but writing does indeed matter for most colleges and universities, including the selective ones. It may matter less for STEM/ tech type of schools (Cal Tech, RPI)–I’m not sure on this, though. However, I know that it counts for the other selective colleges. Just because writing was not a part of the SAT 10 yrs ago, doesn’t mean that it is not important now! The colleges look at all three scores (and for the ACT, all four).