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If you can retake, give it a try. I got a similar Verbal Score (my quant was pretty high tho). I talked to the school where I'd like to go and they said, it's not a bad score, but you're going to be up against the best and if you have time to retake, you should give it a try. If you think about it another way, retaking the GRE is a month or two of buckling down and 190$ max, where as rewriting a whole set of applications can be upwards of 500$ and hours and hours of writing. On whether you can send in your resit scores after the deadline, I would write their admissions office an e-mail and explain the situation.

I'd like to go to SAIS but now I am concerned for the opposite reason. I got 740Q but 590V and 4.5AW on the revised GREs. I'm trying to decide if it's worth the stress to retake or whether I'm still in the SAIS range.

good point...

I got 159V and 158Q.. or 600V and 740Q on the new scale. Not happy. I really don't want to resit it...The average for the program I want to get into is 650V and 730Q. I really hope the ad coms take the fact that this is a new test into account.

I'm slightly terrified that the scores appear to be on the lower end of the estimated scores we received on the test day

I am considering strongly considering applying to different IR masters programs this fall (for fall 2012), my top choice is Johns Hopkins SAIS. I am also thinking about applying to Fletcher, SIPA, and the GW Elliott school. I graduated in December 2010 and am still quite young compared to the "average candidate" on most schools' websites. Here is what I have going for me: - 3.5/4 in Econ and Poli Sci from a world Top 20 school - co-founded and worked for an NGO in South America two years that works in education and econ dev ; grown to have 4 programs, I take a lead or very central role is every program, publication, and in new project development - Published various journal articles, spoken at a conference, invited author on a intl dev. website - fluent english/spanish - my parents both graduated from the same program (not the reason for wanting to go!) -GREs pending... What do you think? is it worthwhile applying this year or better to wait?