i think i will have at least 2 years of full time work exp., because my selling business was a real full time job...
Hi,
It is great that you have full-time experience, and that will certainly be a boon to your application if you are able to express your insights learnt within your essays. However, at least Wharton considers 'full-time experience' to be 'full-time experience after graduation'. And the '2 year' figure is used, I suspect, more for management consultants and investment bankers who go through a typical two year entry-job. For entrepreneurs, the length of time is probably not as important as, once again, the insights you take away from the job.
If you're still unsure, the best thing would be to check with the schools that you want to apply to whether they consider you as having work experience. Yale SOM, for instance, said that my full-time work experience in the army, although it was before college, qualified. And this was full-time in the sense that I was not enrolled in any degree programme whatsoever. However most schools (eg Wharton) do not officially recognise this as work experience.
