ms89

Hey everyone, I'm planning to apply for PhD programmes, specifically focusing on experimental economics. I've just finished my Masters from a really good Indian university with a GPA of 6.2/9 (it's considered to be a good score here). I just received my official GRE scores and they are: Verbal - 166 Quant - 164 AWA- 3.5 Needless to say, I am very disappointed with my AWA score as it doesn't reflect my writing and analytical abilities. I'm afraid that my score in the other sections will drop if I give the GRE gain as I'm working and I can't allocate much time to studying exclusively. How important is the AWA score in the whole process? Is it possible that my high Verbal score, as well as other aspects of my application can salvage this situation, or should I give the GRE again? I was looking at US schools like Columbia, NYU, Duke, UCSD, UCSB, Pittsburgh, Arizona, Michigan, and European schools like University of Bonn, University of Cologne (I've heard behavioural research scene is very dynamic in Germany), Tilburg, Zurich, Barcelona.