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Hi,
Since my last post, I've retaken the GREs and scored a 790 on the quant section. I've also spoken to three professors who are senior professors at top schools in finance, applied math, and financial engineering/industrial engineering and are going to write me favorable recommendation letters. Furthermore, I've also secured a good recommendation letter from my manager who is not a phd himself, but was a phd student and also manages phds in a quant research group at a major wall street firm. We've been working together for the last 5 years on various research initiatives one of which is a paper we are looking to publish in an academic journal. I also have a recommendation letter coming from another senior finance professor from a lesser known school. The professor isn't very published in academic journals, but is well known in the financial services industry and has written books. I have also reached out to another finance professor from the same lesser known school who is a graduate of a top 10 program and is published, though not well known.
Do you think I need all these recommendation letters? If I include all these recommenation letters in my application, will schools just automatically ignore them as overkill or consider them as well, or worse yet, look on them unfavorably as providing too much information? Finally, does a 3.3 from a top US program look better than a 3.7 from a lesser known program? Thanks for the advice I appreciate it! You guys have been a big help on giving me a better perspective on the application process.
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