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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SAT essay usually has a pretty specific prompt.  As far as I can tell, and what my DCs SAT tutor said, the key to a high score is to fill two entire pages, and have good paragraph and sentence structure.  I don't think the topic is that important although of course it needs to be responsive to the prompt.  Mine has taken SATs twice and had pretty different essay prompts so it would be hard to prepare too much for that.

A lot of selective colleges don't even count the writing portion of the SAT so I would definitely not consider the SAT essay to be critical to admissions.[/quote]

Are you kidding? We have visited well over 10 selective colleges and almost all have intimated the importance of the essay and we have been told point  blank that sometimes the essay can be the one thing that pushes (or not) a student over to the side of being admitted. It is HUGE. That is why she is stressing over the essay![/quote]

I think you are mixing up things.  The SAT has an essay component- that has a specific prompt to answer.  Colleges do not read the SAT essay, they get the score.  Many colleges require an [i]additional[/i] essay- the college applications essay is the one that matters more for those colleges.  That is the one where the student needs to present herself to the University.  [/quote]

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