Potential MSF/MBA Student

Hi everyone,

I'm a current UG who used this forum for GMAT advice and it went very well. I'll be creating a post in the B-school section soon asking for a lot of advice, as I'm very unsure how I want to go about the process.

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Hi TNA, I've been reading reviews about MSFs and have seen that you are very knowledgeable about the subject. I'd love to hear some feedback from you. Here is my post (sorry I couldn't just link you to it or pm b/c I don't have enough points):

"I'm about to enter my final UG year as an Economics/Finance major at Bentley (small school, good rep in Boston, not relevant most other places). I'm looking for a lot of advice so even if you can help me in just 1 area that I have questions, it would be very much appreciated.

Qualifications: 3.84 gpa 770 GMAT (50Q, 47V, 6 AWA, 8 IR) current summer internship in tax services very basic math courses in college

Questions:

Should I bother to pursue an MSF? I would love to learn more about finance, but I currently do not have a dream job that I would be leveraging an MSF to attain. I'd really just be trying to get a better (read: target) school on my resume and expand my reach outside of Boston, but still on the East Coast.

These are the programs I'm looking at (please let me know which might be best suited for me/how you would rank the following): MIT Claremont Mckenna Johns Hopkins Villanova Vanderbilt wustl Bentley (would give consideration if financial aid is right)

I've also been exploring the possibility of an MBA after/instead of MSF or some sort of deferred MBA program like HBS 2+2, Stanford, or something along those lines as an extreme longshot. Please share thoughts on that option or other schools with similar programs to consider.

Sorry that's a lot of content, just looking for any advice I can get. Thanks!"

 

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