johnfitz014 wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm brand new to the club and am excited to talk with as many of you as possible and get the most out of the club as I can.
I'm going to graduate from UC Berkeley in the spring of 2012 and would like to go straight into business school the following Fall. However, I am seeing that the average age of U.S. b-school attendants is around 28. Will I have a tough time getting into a school being of a younger age and having limited work experience?
Thank you!
If you go into an MBA program without work experience, it would be very difficult for you to get a job. Most roles require 3-5 years of experience, unless you are planning to go into ibanking or consulting. Even then, you face an uphill battle. That's the reason top b-schools do not generally accept people with little or no work experience. I actually know one person who got into Stanford straight out of UG, but she deferred a year, and is planning to into non-profit post-MBA. At Duke, there's another one as well. But like Jerz said, you pretty much have to be a rockstar.