mg1313

So I probably should've mentioned what I've done since college. I worked for about a year at a pension fund consulting company, basically investment management. For the last year and a half, I've been doing marketing research, basically combining marketing and statistics. I can get good recommendations from my managers as well.

So I'm thinking about going to grad school, and I'm wondering what tier of school I can expect to get into. I don't know what I'd want to do yet, not even sure if I want to do a Master's or PhD or what field exactly. I know I want to do something quantitative like Econ, Finance, Computational Finance. I also have significant interest in public policy, but it's not something I've done professionally so I don't know where I can put my quantitative skills to use there. Plus I like to make money. The bad: My GPA is only 3.2. Sort of slacked off in my later years so I don't have very grades in my majors. Didn't cultivate relationships with a lot of my professors, so I really only have one that would give me a good recommendations. The good: I double-majored in Wharton (concentrations in Finance and Stat) and Math in the college at Penn. I haven't taken the GRE yet, but I expect to have very good and hopefully near perfect scores on that. So I'm wondering if I have a shot at the top programs in various fields. I don't really have any interest in going into academia, so if I can't get into top 10 to 20 programs, is it even worth doing a grad degree that's not an MBA?