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In short, I want to do a PhD in Computer Science at a top 10 (or top 20) school, and my scores are 169 verbal, 163 quantitative. Some of the schools I am considering are Brown, CMU, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Harvard, UMass-Amherst, UMD, and Virginia Tech. Other application criteria (GPA, recs, research) aside, I want to know if my quant GRE score of 163 is too low for, or makes it much less likely to get into a CS PhD program at one of these schools. I am fairly sure I would do better if I took it again, but I would prefer not to. Based on this, do you think it would be worthwhile to retake the GRE? Thanks!

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Best of luck when you retake the test!

In short, I want to do a PhD in Computer Science at a top 10 (or top 20) school, and my scores are 169 verbal, 163 quantitative. Some of the schools I am considering are Brown, CMU, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Harvard, UMass-Amherst, UMD, and Virginia Tech. Other application criteria (GPA, recs, research) aside, I want to know if my quant GRE score of 163 is too low for, or makes it much less likely to get into a CS PhD program at one of these schools. I am fairly sure I would do better if I took it again, but I would prefer not to. Based on this, do you think it would be worthwhile to retake the GRE? Thanks!