MSF School Recommendations

I'm a senior at a top 20 target school without offers for Investment Banking this year. That said, I am thinking about an MSF as a backup. The problem is that I do not know where to aim for given my background. I am a double major in International Business and Finance with an Economics and Philosophy minor.

My GPA will only be a 2.9 upon applying and a little over a 3.0 expected upon graduation. I recently took the GMAT and did score 730. Work experience is low, only one internship slightly related to finance, a research position, and I am serving as treasurer for two organizations on campus.

I was looking at Villanova specifically, but average GPA is a 3.5? Will this knock me out completely? If so, what are some other schools I would have a shot at?

Thanks

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Graduating with a little over 150 credits because of the double major/minor, so I'd take 18-21 credits a semester plus summer classes etc. Wasn't sure what direction I wanted to go in early on and it hurt my GPA.

Also, because my undergraduate university will be much better than the graduate program, will that hurt with recruiting in the fall? Do banks care about your grad program if you're going for an analyst role, considering my undergrad school had much better placement? I read on M&I people do a MSF as a reset for GPA or more time from targets and a prestige boost for non-targets, how accurate is this?

 
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