<p>I am going to be a senior in high school and am currently looking into college and beyond. I am applying to the Naval Academy and the NROTC scholarship program. I will obviously attend college and then serve at least the minimum service requirement in the Marines. For the Naval Academy, this is five years and NROTC is eight years.</p>
<p>I will be in my late twenties, early thirties by the time I am done. Now my question is: Where does this put me at for applying to business school? I know they like to see work experience, but do they consider military service work experience?</p>
<p>I know this is far away, but I was just thinking about some of this today. Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!!</p>
<p>if you're an officer within the navy/marines and you have some good things to talk about I believe you can definitely get into business school. So if you're managing people, some sort of sizeable budget, doing an actual tour where you see combat -- you can be in a good spot for a top b-school.</p>
<p>if you're just working on equipment on a base you probably wont be able to get those b-school opportunities.</p>
<p>I've seen people who've served in the military instead of work experience and they've ended up at wharton, so it's definitely possible. one of them worked with managing a large number of troops for operations in foreign countries, the other saw combat and helped rescue some americans.</p>
<p>military types are highly looked upon by adcoms at top b-schools. dcfca's not kidding about the wharton, they definitely have some military alums there. </p>
<p>btw military experience IS work experience. there is not cookie-cutter "work experience." a lot of people like to choose i-banking or finance or consulting but in reality top b-schools accept students that come from all aspects of business</p>
<p>the thing for you to do is show that you have the same skills as people who worked in business. leadership, ability to train and motivate subordinates, managing a budget or supplies, ability to adapt to and solve unfamiliar situations, people skills, high energy, etc.</p>
<p>Try and figure out what you want your MOS to be right now, so you can take the right classes in college to get that MOS, because if you get a business major in college it would look better to have intel or counter intel as an MOS instead of Infantry or Artillary.</p>