<p>why would they take it? they take it to get into the UCs, the top ones included…i personally am not 100% sure of how the adcom selects candidates and if they plug in the scores into some formula for the top UCs but i know more than enough english-deficient people (100+ cases over the past 7 years) who take all honors math/science, sheltered/ESL english and history classes (appears as CP college prep on transcript) and then send in their “expected” low sat 2 writing (sub-650), 800 math 2c, 800 native language…plan their courses in HS so they take the honors language classes in their sophomore and junior years (honors chinese/korean/japanese 4 and 5 BONUS POINT!)…and get into EECS engineering at berkeley, EE @ LA and USC, etc. its pathetic i know but ya theyre gunna get owned there by all the non-science GE classes…how do u expect them to do well in college/life when every single essay theyve written in high skewl had the prompt revealed days beforehand, and all they have to do is hire a tutor, write the essay together, memorize it, and then reiterate it the next day in class?</p>