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21 year old male graduating from with a 4 year state school in Florida spring 2020
Finance undergrad
Gmat: 640 (8 on IR) did poorly on quant (41Q,36V)
good at math just performed poorly have a 4.0 gpa in heavy quant finance classes
GPA: 3.7/4
Graduating from the Honors College
Letter of recommendation from the Head of Finance at my school
5 months work experience doing financials for major health care company

realistically what are my options and chances

was hoping for UT Austin, Ohio State, Fordham, Arizona State as possible safety school
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21 year old male graduating from with a 4 year state school in Florida spring 2020
Finance undergrad
Gmat: 640 (8 on IR) did poorly on quant (41Q,36V)
good at math just performed poorly have a 4.0 gpa in heavy quant finance classes
GPA: 3.7/4
Graduating from the Honors College
Letter of recommendation from the Head of Finance at my school
5 months work experience doing financials for major health care company

realistically what are my options and chances

was hoping for UT Austin, Ohio State, Fordham, Arizona State as possible safety school
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21 year old male graduating from with a 4 year state school in Florida spring 2020
Finance undergrad
Gmat: 640 (8 on IR) did poorly on quant (41Q,36V)
good at math just performed poorly have a 4.0 gpa in heavy quant finance classes
GPA: 3.7/4
Graduating from the Honors College
Letter of recommendation from the Head of Finance at my school
5 months work experience doing financials for major health care company

realistically what are my options and chances

was hoping for UT Austin, Ohio State, Fordham, Arizona State as possible safety school

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You have a pretty good profile. That GMAT just kills you, sadly. My advice is as follows. Give the GMAT another try. You get that closer to a 670-680 and you'd be competitive for Vanderbilt and other top programs. You are domestic (plus), went to a school adcoms will know (plus), have work experience (plus) and a strong GPA (plus). GMAT just kills you.

Fordham is fine, forget ASU. OSU, Nova, JHU, etc, you'd get into. JHU has the benefit of being east coast and everyone knows Johns Hopkins.
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You have a pretty good profile. That GMAT just kills you, sadly. My advice is as follows. Give the GMAT another try. You get that closer to a 670-680 and you'd be competitive for Vanderbilt and other top programs. You are domestic (plus), went to a school adcoms will know (plus), have work experience (plus) and a strong GPA (plus). GMAT just kills you.

Fordham is fine, forget ASU. OSU, Nova, JHU, etc, you'd get into. JHU has the benefit of being east coast and everyone knows Johns Hopkins.
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Thanks for the advice! I only wonder why you say forget ASU, is it just not worth it? And also what about a program such as UT Austin.
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21 year old male graduating from with a 4 year state school in Florida spring 2020
Finance undergrad
Gmat: 640 (8 on IR) did poorly on quant (41Q,36V)
good at math just performed poorly have a 4.0 gpa in heavy quant finance classes
GPA: 3.7/4
Graduating from the Honors College
Letter of recommendation from the Head of Finance at my school
5 months work experience doing financials for major health care company

realistically what are my options and chances

was hoping for UT Austin, Ohio State, Fordham, Arizona State as possible safety school
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Hey nazholpop, a pretty decent profile I would say that both Ohio State and ASU would be safe schools for you.
UT Austin is a pretty solid program, will be a competitive program for your profile.
You can look at Babson as well .
Just keep in mind that you will be competing with applicants with a wider experience than yours, so plan you application in such a way to compensate for it.