Low GRE Verbal, decent AWA. What to do?

[Poirot19]

Hello,

I'm an international student. I took the revised GRE, landed up with a low verbal score. I got 152 (53 percentile, 490 on the old scale.)

I want to apply to a Master's course in Computer Science.

Do you think my verbal score will hurt my application? I have a decent quant score (163) and AW score. (4.5)

I have a good undergrad GPA and have worked pretty hard on the other aspects of my application. But I'm just really, really worried about my low verbal score.

I want to apply to top 30 schools.

Will a decent AW score offset my low verbal score? Or should I consider applying lower ranked schools based on my verbal scores?

I'm really, really worried/confused. Any kind of help will be appreciated.

[pemdas]

as long as your intended major is quant intensive your verbal score above 30% percentile will probably get a pass.

you need to concentrate on your other parts of application package, also your quant at 88% is within top 15 percentile rank - so again concentrate on SOP, LORs and other relevant stuff in your application process.

[emmm]

For an international student, that score seems fine. In general, I doubt the AWA would offset anything -- some schools don't even use the AWA. However, I think your Verbal score is good enough for your purposes.