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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. 11:32 Per College Confidential, that's changing, schools discounted the writing section more when it was first introduced in 2005. Also everyone we know (including college counselors, parents of juniors and sophomores, and College Confidential posters) talks about breaking 2100/2200 on the SAT.

Thanks, DC's done prep, and will do more.

If anyone's got any stories of acceptance/rejection ...[/quote]

It may be changing, but we've heard in at least 2 visits we did this fall that the writing scores are discounted or not even considered (e.g., Georgetown says they don't look at them).

Was the SAT score a fluke or was it consistent with PSATs and practice test scores and other standardized testing he's done?  I think 50th percentile will be tough for the selective schools.  Have you considered score optional schools?  Some very good SLACs are score optional now.

When I look at naviance for our school for the selective colleges I see a couple of acceptances of kids with lower SATs - maybe recruited athletes or some other hook?  Maybe take a look at Naviance or whatever your school has to see.  I actually just looked at ours for Wesleyan (who knows if its comparable to yours) and there was one accepted applicant (ED) for our school with under 2100, the rest were all above 2200.[/quote]

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