I'd just submit to places that have made it mandatory (so NYU, WUSTL, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA) and probably wouldn't submit to others. The low verbal score can presumably be offset by a killer writing sample and LORs (TBH I think these matter more than anything else, so if you have a trustworthy/well-known academic who will fight for you, that's good), just like a low quant score can be offset by an amazing quant writing sample - and by quant I mean, like, building models in Stan... Because that will be your competition and given your low scores you need to be better than your competition.
I'd go with the first one - AW doesn't matter that much from what I hear.