<p>Impetuous - I hear ya. I practiced like crazy and our SAT prep advisor gave me the best scores on the essay. She has been doing this for years and years, and only recently she told me that lately, since the subject test became part of the reasoning test, her marks are no longer correlating with the marks the students end up getting. People have gotten 12 for writing crap, albeit long crap. People have gotten 6’s for writing lovely pieces that were “short and sweet”. I am so mad at collegeboard right now, my chances of getting in with my score are like, zero. I seriously hope schools don’t care as much about ACT/SAT writing. I’m especially upset about ACT, because my “6” on the essay brought my English score down from a 36 to a 30, and it was a good essay. </p>
<p>The worst part is, my college advisor said he has so many requests to write letters (he is the only “school counselor” who is designated to write them) that he only grants these requests to people who get over 2300, because from his experience, everyone who gets under doesn’t get in anywhere (I wanted to scream at him “well, it’s because your letters are so rushed and impersonal that they have to overcompensate in SOMETHING!”)</p>
<p>I had to tell him that my scores were delayed… if I do not, he will not write me. I got 2210, with a 1530 CR+M. My CEGEP is the strongest in the province, so everyone is like, insane. A score of 2200 is considered “bad”.</p>