t out of completing it.
The Ivy League schools are a good example of why students must research the necessity of completing the New SAT’s Essay for every school to which they might apply: As of last fall, Yale, Harvard. Princeton, and Dartmouth were in the “must complete” camp, while Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and U Penn took the opposite stance – and Stanford chimed in from the left coast with a “should submit” opinion.
The difference between the “yes” and “no” camps concerns how the New SAT Essay does, doesn’t, will, or won’t equate with tasks the students will face and with the students’ general performances at the college level, and much of that is pure conjecture. But because a lot of the people who have diametrically opposed opinions on this issue are far smarter than we are, we’ve chosen to demur on putting in our one-cent’s worth – other than to advise students to do what’s required by the colleges to which they might be applying, keep their rooms clean, and eat whatever their mothers cook for them.