Poor verbal scores for engineer... retake?

<p>Hello everyone! </p>

<p>I wrote out a long post yesterday and when I hit "Submit New Thread" my internet crashed and everything was lost... so today I'm doing the short version. </p>

<p>I am a civil engineering student looking to apply to law school and for a masters in urban planning/regional development/etc. I will be graduating this spring and currently have a 3.4 GPA. Decent for engineering but nothing great. I have worked for two engineering and planning firms and have taken numerous graduate planning courses already. In addition to the core engineering curriculum I will be taking three land use courses this fall and plan to take another in the spring... a total of six courses by the time I graduate. So... I've been preparing for the GREs & LSATs this summer and I took the GREs this week. I got a 750 quant and a tragic 500 for verbal. As I was taking the exam I knew that I wasn't doing well on the verbal but I think I did quite well on the writing portion. Could a decent writing score make up for the poor verbal? I have been considering a retake but I just question how much higher I'd score. In my practice exams I wasn't getting anything too great... but more in the mid to high 500's. I have taken numerous writing intensive courses(at the undergraduate and graduate level) and received A's in all of them. Will this even be considered? </p>

<p>My question really is... are my scores so dismal that a retake is a must? </p>

<p>Be honest. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>If you're going into law school then have you taken the LSAT?</p>

<p>For an engineer, I think your quantitative scores are probably (~80 percentile) a bit lower than your verbal score (~60 percentile) for most top engineering scores. The math portion is obviously much more important than verbal or writing for engineering, but I don't know how much relevance the GRE would have whatsoever to law schools.</p>

<p>I am applying to graduate school in addition to law school... but NOT for engineering. </p>

<p>I think I should retake but I'm afraid that my scores aren't going to improve in verbal.</p>