Vandy and the New SAT

HoyaMom
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:24:33 +0000

When my daughter and I went to PreVU at Vandy they said they fall into the catagory of schools which “take a look at the SAT writing section but don’t formally count it yet”. They said that they check to see if the score on the writing section seemed to jibe with how the student’s essays looked. If the essays were very polished and extremely well written and the SAT score was very low they were a bit suspicious. They did mention that they understand the difference between a timed writting sample and an essay which was worked over for months. Bottom line is, and this is a quote, “If the student’s essay sounds like it was written by a 45-year-old lawyer, we assume it was. It needs to have the student’s voice come through.” I hope I answered your question. Good luck with your application.