Man my scores...(questions).

LauraN
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:51:07 +0000

Actually, to clarify, I think we’re referring to the fact that last year, admissions specifically did not consider the SAT Writing scores of applicants because the test is brand new, so to put it bluntly, there was no way of telling if it sucked or not. (ie does it actually help predict if students have college-level writing skills, or whatever it is the SAT is supposed to measure anyway). I assume the same policy still holds, since the first year of students to take the new test haven’t had time to prove themselves and create the second set of data points necessary for analysis. I imagine this will continue to be true for several more years.

If I sound like a pretentious jerk/idiot, that’s because it’s almost 4 AM and I’ve spent the last several hours coding in MATLAB. Apologies. =)