New SAT scores vs. Old SAT scores

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<p>From today’s WSJ <a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113392427118515919.html?mod=todays_us_personal_journal[/url]”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113392427118515919.html?mod=todays_us_personal_journal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Many Colleges Ignore
New SAT Writing Test</p>

<p>Essay May Not Predict
Academic Success, Critics Say;
When the Results Can Help
By CHARLES FORELLE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
December 7, 2005; Page D1</p>

<p>The prospect of churning out a coherent essay in the midst of the pressure-filled SAT test has been making high-school students around the country quake. But now that the first results of the new SAT writing test are in, many colleges say they’re ignoring them.</p>

<p>The University of Chicago, Ohio State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other institutions say scores on the writing test won’t figure into their admissions decisions this year. “We don’t know what they mean,” says Ted O’Neill, Chicago’s dean of admissions. “We don’t know what they predict.”

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