low AWA Score

[saikat89]

I am from electrical engineering background. GRE score: Quant=780, Verbal=640

Today got my gre AWA(analytical writing) score and its 3.5 (26 %ile). Should i retake the GRE? or go for review? or can make up it by TOEFL?..........pls help.........i m serriously considering gettin into top 20...pls help

I am quite worried whether the adcom will reject my aplication due to low AWA score.

[bilalahmed1324]

i have exactly the same scores but even worse AW score 3.0 to be exact. I took toefl twice and each time i got 28. I am so shocked about my score. Literally it was one of the huge disappointment for me. And the ridiculous part is that the critique question of the AW section was the same whose arguments i read and even write a night before the test.

But still i am applying with these scores because i have talked to many graduate schools and they seemed to be ok with it. Some of them are saying that your poor AW score can be overlooked because of your good verbal, toefl writing and your writing sample.