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Here's what I would do. Senior year, do two things:
1. Apply for jobs
2. Apply for Masters Programs

Basically hedge the risk of not getting the job you want by applying to grad schools. Lets say you don't get into Finance/Consulting, then do your MSF at what will hopefully be a school with more Finance/Consulting recruiting than the one than you are currently at.

Either way, you should end up where you want to be.
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Few days ago, WSJ had a nice article on people choosing for MSF and other alternative degrees to MBA. It has brief summaries of individuals who chose other master's programs over MBA, and their reasons.

The Alternative M.B.A.: One-Year Master's Degrees
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 18790.html

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3.57 isnt really high. I would imagine that they would be a bit more lenient with an eng. major. As I said earlier though, MSF programs really care about your GMAT. Because the majority of the applicants do not have work experience, and it is somewhat difficult to compare GPA's from school to school (let alone in different countries), GMAT is the real differentiator. Of course, keep your GPA up, but really work on the GMAT when it comes time.
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Thanks

I'm not really aiming for top. I'm not a top student. The 3.3 isn't a manifestation of laziness (the average here is about a 2.9, and this is a top engineering school), I'm just not a genius. Is a good (not top, but good) school reasonable with that?

If not, what things can be a good aid beyond just getting a higher GPA?
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Okay, thanks.

As for work experience, I'm not quite at the point of getting career yet. Any advice for getting those jobs? About 20% of the graduates from here in engineering get consulting/IB/Finance jobs, (though last year it was only about 13%, but hopefully it should go back up), so there are a good number but it's not a huge amount, and they usually recruit 3.5+ people. Any suggestions for getting into one (other than have a 3.5)?
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Are MFin and MSF degrees new? I thought they'd been around for a while?

Thanks guys.
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Further looking into this... The program at Washington (one of the two you suggested for low GPA) sounds really good. It looks rather more quantitative than many other programs which I like, and seems to be well respected. The problem is though, while you say they do not require a high GPA, the average GPA there is a 3.57? Is this a phenomenon of relatively easy majors (I feel I could have a much higher GPA had I majored in Econ instead), and of them realizing it and putting more weight on Engineering majors?
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Okay, thanks. I'll be sure to do that.
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