<p>I just got my official GRE results back: 165Q (795 old scale), 160V (605), 3.5AW. I think my Q score is very slightly above average for the programs I'm looking at, and the V score is above average, but the AW score is below. </p>
<p>I'm applying for admission to top tier MS BioE programs (Stanford, Duke, JHU, Berkeley, UCSD, Yale, etc.)</p>
<p>Is my writing score too low? I got my BS in BioE from Berkeley with a 3.35 cumulative GPA and 3.6 in my last two years (all upper-div technical courses). I have strong LORs and research/work experience (2 pending papers, 1 patent, 1 national conference poster).</p>
<p>I'm just worried that my AW score may not meet a hard cut-off for some of the top schools.</p>