Low Verbal/Quant Score, High AWA Score, Rewrite?

[twinsora]

I just got my GRE scores in and scored a 148 on verbal, 150 on quant and a 6.0 on AWA. 

I'm planning to apply to a mix of schools in the states in the Top 50 for PhD programs in Political Science (Brown, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, Johns Hopkins, and the New School which doesn't require the GRE as I'm an international applicant)

Was wondering if it is worth rewriting, and how much value departments place on the AWA score. 

Edited November 30, 2015 by twinsora

[Neuro PolarBear]

Even though that is an impressive AWA score, most programs don't place that much weight on AWA scores at all. I'd definitely retake it to try and get both verbal and quant to ~160 since most Political Science programs require high scores in each. As U Chicago notes, "The average GRE scores for those admitted last year were 164 Verbal, 157 Quantitative," and these numbers fit with those given by magoosh here.