Is 163 (quantitative) too low for Top 10 CS PhD

[bookend]

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!

[ssk2]

Probably not? I think GREs are only used to filter out poor applicants - once you've made the cut it has little relevance.

That said, I have no idea what the threshold is but I would imagine 163Q should be sufficient in the majority of cases. That's a pretty decent score. Perhaps one of the more experienced forum members has a better idea of this.