Wow - awesome profile! Great GPA (though schools can be picky about the school pedigree I have been told).
You are slightly below the average for GMAT for the M7's and basically all the programs except McCombs so it all depends on how they love you as a strong candidate/deep profile besides the test scores. It is not that test scores mean anything really but they determine the average for the program and that plays into the rankings and rankings is a rat race for schools, so we as applicants have to pay the tribute in test scores. Anyway, I think your profile is good and interesting enough. if you don't get interview invites in the next few weeks (Wharton is 3 weeks), your only area of improvement would be test scores and I would suggest retaking the GMAT or pivoting to the GRE, which is much more forgivable towards unimpressive scores for all except Yale.

P.S. I would also suggest looking at the locations where you are planning to be after your MBA - seems like Austin may be one of those places and picking a regional program which will have enough value locally, which of course it seems you have done so there goes my advice out of the window.

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