Well...I understand your position. But if I were you, I would just leave the thought of not getting enough in Quant and move on in life. You have a terrific verbal score. So just chill.And I would like to believe that 740 is a good score.

I agree. I believe that your background in finance would make up for your Quant score.

Great score buddy!!

Thank you guys for putting this in perspective, maybe that was only the post-exam stress speaking or something
Anyways I'm putting the finishing touch on the essays now.

Cheers

nice score. how did you prepare for quant and verbal?

I think a 77 in Quant is good for most schools. I was in a similar situation, as I barely broke 80 on quant, and did really well in verbal. But if you have a solid app, I don't think most schools would reject you based on one point in the quant section.

Congrats on your score.

Preparation :

I studied for about 1 month 1/2. I did an initial test with Kaplan, with absolutely no preparation, got 620 (I graduated in 2004, so all that pythagorean stuff was long gone . Got started with Kaplan premier to get an overview, then got working on the OG, then used the 2 Kaplan workbooks (V & Q). Also bought EZ Solutions advanded math workbook, don't buy it, questions poorly written and not feeling "like" GMAT questions, lots of mistakes, almost useless... After finishing Kaplan premier (2 weeks), I did 710 (Kaplan). After that I spent most of my preparation on the quant part, on the verbal part I mostly did sentence corrections to refresh my knowledge of English grammar. I read a lot of english at work, so I didn't think I could improve much on my score in that area (besides learning a few tips). Until the test I did a lot of exercise, after a month did another Kaplan test - got 790, at that point I started to wonder if Kaplan cheats on its CAT so that you feel like you're improving.... So I did the first GMATprep, got 710, which felt more reasonable. 3 days before the test, I took the second GMATpret, got another 790 which made me feel all pumped up for the exam.

The exam :

The Quant section was a terrible experience. If I could have made a list of all the questions I hate, it couldn't have been worse... I felt like there was less variety in questions than in prep tests, actually I had 2 questions that were almost the same... Anyway I started getting pissed of, and I'm not performing very well when I'm in such a mood. I felt my last question was pretty easy and I screwed it up, so at that point I was thinking of walking away!
Verbal section was much better, I take usually 20-30 sec for sentence correction Q, 1 min for CR, which gave me enough time for RC texts that quickly became difficult so I kind of knew I was doing well.
The final score: was my verbal going to be enough to make up for quant??? I really pondered wether or not I should get my score, considering my assessment of my performance (usually I'm good with that). Then I figured, that exam is expensive enough, I might as well get something out of it... so I got 740, which was in the range of what I was aiming at, but with messed up Q/V scores and quite below the 790 I got 3 days earlier.