Can Someone Please Grade This SAT Essay (1 - 6)?

The SAT essays are graded very systematically. They usually follow a 5 paragraph rubric - intro, three points, conclusion - and the more you write, generally the better your score. I would say your essay merits a 3 or a 4. It's very well-written, but involved way too many rhetorical questions. You usually don't want to ask any question of the reader when it comes to the SAT essay. In addition, you only have two main supporting facts. While a good essay can be written with two points, those points have to be very well developed. In the case of your essay, the points are superficially analyzed; you need more information about both even if you were writing a three prong essay.

I think it's pretty good and would get around a 5 somewhere. To criticize, they ask us to pick one side or the question or the other as if life was in black and white, no grays or reds. In real life there are advantages either way so I would have pointed that out. I don't know if it would have made any difference, but that's the way I see it.