<p>I'm currently in my junior year and looking for some advice. Here are some of my stats if they help.</p>
<p>School: First two years at Mid-tier UC then transferred to UCBerk.
GPA: Cum. as of right now is 3.8ish but I figure it'll drop to around 3.6-7ish by the time I graduate.
Work Experience: Interned at software company after frosh year, then Big 4 acct. firm after soph year.</p>
<p>Here is where the advice is needed. I want to get into a real good MBA program, say Harvard or Stanford. I know that the biggest thing is work experience. So for this summer I got an offer to intern in Finance for a big tech company (think Google, Yahoo!, Apple, Microsoft). If I take the offer and do well it will lead to a spot in the company's Finance Rotation program. Would this experience be appealing to business schools? I really don't want to be a banker or anything like that.</p>
<p>A lot of those top 20 schools seem to like work experience (not including internships) and/or something that demonstrates leadership qualities and maturity of character. Other than internships do you have anything that shows this? Club membership, involvement in anything, leader of anything, charity work, etc...</p>
<p>I think with a high gpa, high GMAT, and nothing else it will be crap shoot to get in. However, craps has the best odds against the house so it would still be worth trying.</p>
<p>If you don't get in I wouldn't fret, but would reapply after 2 years out of school.</p>
<p>Japher, I believe the threadstarter is saying that he would have post-graduate work experience at a big tech company. Personally, I think one could parlay that plus a good GMAT score to get into a good business school. It's probably not the best work experience, but could probably still be sufficient (given that you move up in the org some and your responsibilities grow). If it was google, that would be very good considering that most recognize Google is highly selective.</p>
<p>VectorWega is right. I will apply 2-4 years after I graduate and be working at the big tech for that amount of time. Nevertheless, I was on the Board of Directors for the business club, member of marketing association, and volunteered a little bit (nothing too big).</p>