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!
No point returning to Bentley if you don't want to do a specific job and are trying to extend your reach/resume past Boston....
Your academic stats are good but (esp. as a finance/economics student) you won't get into HBS/Stanford without exceptional extracurricular activities.
Thank you for the feedback. I had figured those 2 schools were both big reaches. Is there a similar program you have heard of, just below the level of Stanford and Harvard, that I could apply to and have a better shot at?
Yale has one (Silver Scholars) but I don't know much about it.
I don't know of any 2+2 programmes aside from HBS and Stanford, and very few MBA programmes have direct admits from undergrad for non-STEM majors.
MSFs (From best to worst - 1 being the best):
You should have a very high chance at all of the above with the exception of MIT. If you took the typical Calc 1-3 sequence, probability based statistics, linear algebra and some coding, you'd probably be a solid bet at MIT as well.
Also look at the following UK schools - they have some pull in the US:
You should have a good chance at all of the above schools as well.
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