2.88 GPA.. do I have a chance?

Hello all,

I graduated a little over a year ago from a CUNY college... I know ... not that great. I graduated with a 2.88/4.0 Cumulative GPA. I work in retail banking for over 6 years now, after a dreadful year of searching for jobs in Finance and having no luck I opted into taking the GRE. I took the exam a few times and finally got a decent score. 158/170 Verbal 167/170 Quant (325/340). I was looking to get into a B school - Ideally NYU Full-Time MBA, what do you think my chances are? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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2.88 GPA is going to hurt, but you never know. Looking at the latest class profile, the GPA's ranged from 2.84-3.99 so it isn't impossible. Just gotta crush your essays and have a little bit of luck on your side. Best of luck.

 

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