Need help with graduate school in finance

I am an economics undergraduate who is going through a quarter-life crisis and am wanting to pursue a masters degree in finance to enter the private sector.

My GPA is 3.65ish and will most likely be around a 3.7 by graduation. I want to find a strong program that I will be able to get into, in spite of my lack of accounting/finance background (I have not taken any finance/acct courses, but I do have some math: Cal I and II, and Linear Algebra) and my relatively low GPA.

I have a strong academic resume, but no tangible professional experiences.

I have not taken the GRE or GMAT yet, but I estimate that I will get around 660-680.

I have one semesters worth of classes remaining to complete my degree, but have two semesters of scholarship, so I am considering taking a heavy load of finance/acct courses.

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