Journalism/Lit Major concerned re: B-School Acceptance

I think your question is: how do you convey certain "business school" qualites, when you do not have bsiness experience? This is a common concern, but the truth is that most schools are less concerned about "business experience" than you might think. Business schools are intersted in leadership, and you can demonstrate leadership in many different settings. For example, an accountant, working on business issues every day, might be working solo, with little opportunity for leadership. In contrast, a teacher may have great content for an application, in that he or she is leading a group of students, communicating, mentoring, etc... I do not know enough about your actual experience to give you specific guidance, but my suggestion is to think hard about what you have done and break it down into examples of leadership, teamwork, helping others, mentoring, thinking out of the box. My sense is that as a copywriter, editor, etc...you are also going to have to be creative about how you describe your experience, but again, the challenge is to convey leadership, not "business-y" skills. With reagrds to your goals, you will have to do some thinking about what you would really like to do and be much more specififc about short and long term goals. "Conquer the world" is a good ambitious start though...

Most people do not know exactly what they want to do, but you need to come up aiwth a good story representing something you may do, and believe it! If you take another path, (as I did!) they will not hold you to it. I admittedly do not know much about journalism or teaching positions but neither of those strike me as positions that would require or necessarily benefit from an MBA. For example, most people I know in the journalism field have degrees in journalism. Make sure that you show that your desired path would be helped by an MBA or you will not be successful. Thsi is actually an extremely important part of the process.

Still not convinced that is a position that would benefit from an MBA. You should do some research - speak to people in similar roles and speak to people in admissions or career services at target schools. I may be totally wrong, but just confirm that.

See this blog entry: https://blog.stacyblackman.com/2005/09/0 ... -the-need/