How important is AW (for top psych schools)

[fkotsian]

Hi all, hope you more experienced people can help me out a little bit with this question:

I took the old GRE in July and got some good scores, only my AW was really lacking (CR 740, Q 760, AW 3.5). I felt like this really wasn't representative of my writing ability (because really, 26th percentile?) and so I took the new test this last week. Here's the question: I actually canceled the scores because my second Q section was absurdly easy, and I feared that a higher AW (probably 4.5) combined with a lower Q (650-700) might look a lot worse than my previous scores. I'm deciding whether to uncancel it -- what do you guys think?

Really appreciate the help!

Frank

Edited October 13, 2011 by fkotsian