How much of an importance do gre scores have in admission

[Albertlulu]

Hi , I am an international student applying for statistics Ph.D this cycle. I recently took GRE as there are still few schools like standford that require gre scores. However my scores are not that great. As in my verbal and quant scores are ok-ish (v:161, q:170) but my writing score is much much below average (3.0) . (I have trouble writing essays for topics I haven't thought about deeply in a short amount of time which is what gre asks you to do. And I ended up running out of time without finishing my conclusion.) Do u guys think this is a huge deal breaker for admission to gre-required schools? I have written english manuscripts for statistics research I have done and my toefl score is very high. Do you think this can make up for my incredibly low gre writing score?

[PhysicsKid]

Your quant score is perfect (which is to say, better than “ok-ish!”). I would be absolutely shocked if any program rejects you or even judges you at all for a less than stellar writing score. From talking to Profs on various (T5) admissions committees, it seems like they appreciate the GRE just because it gives some sort of way to at least filter out a few people (very low quant scores are predictive of lack of success, even if the rest is not predictive at all). They basically will see if you got above 165 (or similar, depending on school obviously) on quant and then not look at the GRE again.