SAT Superscore/Score Choice

MiddKid86
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:36:45 +0000

My writer score was lower by 110… how does that effect it?

Yeah, I should have figured out from your post that your second writing score was a 640. I’ll give you my answer, which won’t be satisfying… it depends. I would really need to know what schools you are applying to and try to get a feel for how they use SAT scores in their admission process. Generally, it seems that most schools put less emphasis on the writing score than on the CR and math scores, possibly because the writing section hasn’t been around that long (compared to the other two). Also, keep in mind that very often the student will overvalue the impact that standardized test scores have on the admissions process. It’s easy to do, because the objective number scores lend themselves to such easy and quantifiable analysis. But most schools, especially the more competitive schools where so many of the applicants have similar scores, really make an effort to view the applicant as much more than a set of test scores. In this regard, the content of the rest of your application can also make a difference in deciding whether or not to send both sets of scores or just the second.