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Thanks for the advice! Does anyone know what the minimum verbal score for an international student to pass the cut-off is?

ok, more info: English is not my first language, I did my undergrad in Political Science in the best uni of my country for that topic, but that is not saying much. Although I am European they may or may not have heard of it. I graduated the first one in my year, and my GPA should roughly translate as 3.95 more or less. I have a masters at Oxbridge with distinction in my thesis and overall distinction (because of average of coursework and thesis, I barely missed distinction in coursework), and I am now on a Fulbright scholarship in a US school. No relevant work experience besides a couple internships. Have no publications, one conference paper in the topic I want to work on, speak 4 languages fluently (including English), basics of German and Mandarin and reading knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek. Worked as RA for a year during my undergrad, but that is as much non-independent research experience as I have. Is this enough info? My toefl score was 114 two years ago. Just took it again, so it should be around that, maybe a bit higher. Thanks a lot!!

Hi all, I am an international student planning on applying for PhDs in Political Theory/IR (my interests are at the intersection of both fields). I have taken the GRE twice and my scores were 780Q/540V/5AW the first time and 800Q/550V/still waiting for AW. I wanted to apply to some top schools (i.e. Harvard and Columbia), because there is almost no one working in my field and the couple professors i could work with are at those universities. However, given the low verbal score, I think it is very unlikely that i get in. So is it even worth applying with those GRE scores? Thanks a lot for your help!