WRITING SECTION- Omg What Does "undecided" Mean?!?!!!?

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>Look, Princeton is listed under the schools that are “undecided” in terms of how they will look at the writing section. this is weird, because other selective schools like HARVARD say that writing section will be completely EQUAL to the CR and MATH section!!</p>

<p>KAPLAN EXCLUSIVE: New SAT Scoring Policies from 374 Top Schools
In evaluating scores for the new SAT, the following schools plan to give the Writing section More Weight, Equal Weight, Lesser Weight, or No Weight relative to the Math and Critical Reading sections this year, or else are Undecided. </p>

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<p>hell, i hope they all give the writing section at least the same weight, lol</p>

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<p>its kinda weird how any institution can give the writing section more weight at this point</p>

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<p>Well, even if they don’t weight the writing section at all, they will still weight your score out of 2400…getting a perfect 800+800+800=2400 is still better than getting a 1600+690=2290, for example</p>

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<p>thats true, but what we’re talking about is the difference between a 2250(800M, 800V, 650W) and 2250(800M, 650V, 800W)</p>

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<p>Well everyone knows the first one is better</p>

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<p>Not for the first two groups of schools on the list…</p>

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<p>an admissions officer will nonetheless pick the first applicant, instinctively.</p>

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<p>haha well that’s good for me then.</p>

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<p>[to gxing] Untrue.</p>

<p>Admissions officers don’t work on instincts, many have guidelines, and the chance is that if they announce that they’re going to weight the writing section at an equal par with another section, they’re going to do it.</p>

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<p>There isn’t much room for instinct because no one admissions officer makes a final decision…it’s always a group decision. And if everyone in the group has the same instinct it means that there is a good reason behind it.</p>

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<p>It depends. If I were an adcom looking at BSE candidates, I’d take the 800W kid because writing is extremely important in the science world - you get some of the most accurately phrased writing from scientists. Knowing the ‘author’s intent’ is pointless for a scientist because research papers don’t have subtle hints or any crap like that.</p>

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<p>The SAT Writing does not test writing ability though, it merely tests grammar. I seriously don’t think someone who scores 800 on it is automatically a better “writer.”</p>

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<p>Wow Yale doesn’t look at the writing at all… cool!</p>

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<p>lol, that is bad for me</p>

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<p>windslicer, college admissions officers are human too. assuming two applicants are equal in all other respects, the writing score would be the deciding factor, especially if the difference was significant.</p>

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<p>i actually asked a princeton admissions officer. she was deliberately vague but the message that got across was that as of 2008 princeton definetly cares about the writing section…but maybe a little bit less than CR and math</p>

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<p>gxing, TWO APPLICANTS CAN NEVER BE SIMILAR IN ALL OTHER ASPECTS because the essays/recommendation letters/interview/extracurriculars will set them apart. That’s why these things are labeled as subjective factors and you can’t really do any comparison with them beyond the objective data.</p>

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<p>harvard2727, class of 2008?? so beginning next year, the writing section will count?</p>

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<p>evilasiandictator, let me clarify what i said. if the committee had to choose between two candidates that were equally qualified, and then the SAT score was taken into account, the one with the significantly higher writing score would get in.</p>

<p>i think we can all agree that having a higher score can only help you, while having a lower one can, at best, be of no consequence.</p>