Just got back my GRE scores and found I got a 170 in the verbal, a 161 in the quant, and a 4 for the essay. Looking at the average engineering quant scores for grad school it seems like 165 should be the golden number. Is a 4 point difference really that significant? I would like to save 200$ if possible.
There is no real “golden standard” when it comes to graduate school. Do you have any research experience? Do you have any professors who you know will write you some really strong reference letters (particularly pertaining to the aforementioned research experience)? How are your grades? Those will trump your GRE scores.