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What do you want to do?

Since you're on WSO I'd assume you're looking for Finance. The Valedictorian/4.0 is nice, but at this point you're not really giving anyone a good reason to hire you.

I'd focus on getting more relevant experience and get into the best and most relative masters degree you can.

It depends on exactly what you want to do, but I'd consider taking a year of internships/experience in the field you're looking to get into and preparing for the GMAT. Then MFA, MAcc, MSc.

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The sad (maybe more ridiculous part) is that I did really well on the verbal section and just completely bombed the quant section (didn't even realize that you could get that low of a score on a section). I think my issue is that on a lot of the MGMAT CATs I felt like I was getting extremely lucky with a lot of the most challenging questions. In the sense that I would get them correct, but had absolutely no idea why they were correct. That intuition completely abandoned me on the real thing and I started trying to evaluate my performance on the quant section during the test, which sort of derailed my confidence when I started getting pretty basic questions.

 

If you were really scoring that well on practice tests, it wouldn't be a terrible idea to study another month and retake while it's still fresh. But I'm having a hard time believing that score difference unless you took it drunk.

 

If you are looking for job opportunities in europe it is totally acceptable to do 1 year of internships (at least 2 different firms/roles though... very long internships are frowned upon by everyone except the company that gets the cheap labour for a year) and then go do your masters with a better gmat score. 650 would probably be enough to get you into some decent enough programs but obviously the better the score, the better your chances for a good school and good recruiting.

 

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