<p>Hi! I am currently an accounting undergrad at SFSU. I have a 3.94 overall GPA and will have a finance internship at Chevron this summer. If my plan works out, I will work there full-time after graduation (May 2012) for a few years. </p>
<p>My question is, with my grades (and future work experience), will I have a chance to get into the elite MBA programs, like Berkeley and Stanford? Specifically, will going to SFSU hinder me being able to get into those schools? I haven't taken my GMATs yet, but I will presumably do well on them.</p>
<p>Going to SFSU won’t hurt you as long as you can still get a prestigious job after you graduate. Chevron is a good start.</p>
<p>Stanford will be tough with a non-target background + a vanilla F500 job. I hope I’m not sounding like a d-bag and definitely not trying to knock on your achievements, just realize that the people who get into HBS, SGSB and Wharton for MBA are really something else or have amazing stories. Berkeley should be doable if you get a sick GMAT, but business school admissions are tough to predict anyway.</p>
<p>Do you have a job description of what you’ll be doing/ECs? Honestly, that + expected GMAT range would make it a lot easier to make a prediction.</p>
<p>PS: I’m very interested in working in industry finance, particularly in energy after graduating and Chevron is probably my favorite company of the bunch (bought some shares a while ago :D), so I was wondering if you have any info about when they hire and if they have any leadership/rotational programs that you know of that are similar to GE.</p>
<p>Chevron is a great place to work. The culture is amazing and the work life balance is hard to beat. If you are interested in industry finance, definitely check out Chevron’s Finance Development Program (or Finance MBA Development Program). The pay is good, you have opportunities to travel all over the world, and get to be in an elite group in the finance function (both the CEO and the CFO came out of one of those programs). </p>
<p>The FDP is 18 months with three 6 month rotations. Each rotation is in a different function, for example: Treasury, Downstream, and Upstream. The FMBADP is the same idea, but it is two years with four rotations. They recruit in the Fall for full-time program hires and in the Spring for Summer interns. </p>
<p>Let me know of anything else that you would want to find out about!</p>