Penn State is optimistic and enthusiastic about the new SAT:
“We receive over 40,000 freshman applications each year, and we have more students sending us their SAT scores than any college or university east of Los Angeles,” said John Romano, vice provost and dean of enrollment management and administration at Penn State. “Penn State processes a tremendous amount of student information and, while we applaud the addition of a writing component to the SAT, we need to remind ourselves that the results of the new SAT will be just one of many factors we look at as we make admission decisions.”
“The immediate impact of the writing component,” Romano said, “is the strong signal it sends to students, parents, teachers and administrators in our nation’s secondary schools that writing is important. Eventually, we hope to observe in our university classrooms across all disciplines the results of this added emphasis. For now, we need to assess what role the additional component should play in our decisions.”
Forty thousand applications. Good Lord. What a mountain of paperwork that must be...