Low CGPA (MA Econ advice please)

[aanz]

Hi, I want to work in Econ Dev at world bank, UN, ADB and similar organizations. I'm not sure which programs to apply to that will give me the best chances to get to those jobs! Aiming at schools like GWU, IHEID, etc.

 

Graduated: May 2019, want to apply for 2020 or 2021.

 

Type of Undergrad: BSc. in Financial Mathematics from Canadian unranked university

Undergrad GPA: CGPA (3.15), GPA last twenty credits (3.67), Math GPA (3.8)

Low grades in my early years due to bad health issues.

 

Undergrad Econ Courses: Intro Micro (A), Intro Macro (B+), EnvEcon (A), Money and Banking (B+), going to take Intermediate Macro and maybe Micro

Math Courses: Calc I,II,III (D-, D+, A-), Prob&Stats I,II(A-, A), Ordinary Differential Equations (A-), Partial Differential Equations (A+), Linear Algebra (A-), Applied Linear Algebra (A+), Numerical Analysis (A+), Stochastic Processes (A+), Fin Maths I,II(B+,A+)

LORs: Two professors in whose classes I got A+'s. One was my thesis

 

Programming: R, Python, SAS, MATLAB

 

Research Experience: Undergrad Thesis in Mathematics (A+)

 

Work experience: Data Analyst Intern at the gov , and analytics/data science role at a top bank in canada (July '19 - July '20)

 

Questions:

1. Where can I get into a decent masters in Europe, Canada, US??

2. Can I do anything to strengthen my application?