<p>Sorry if this is a stupid question, but i'm a senior in high school who doesn't know very much. I know that to get into a top 14 law school you need to get 160+ and have a high gpa. But the requirements for business sound complicated. I guess you need work expericence, but im not really sure of what else is needed, could someone explain this to me?</p>
<p>"Work experience" in this context is not what you'd think of for a high school applicant to college. Full-time, professional work experience for a top business school is expected to be the start of a prestigious or promising career. You're expected to do something relating to business, be it finance, entrepreneurship, something that shows that you are a business leader of tomorrow. You must have gained a wide array of professional skills from it, have excelled and have excellent recommendations from your bosses, and have a clear vision for how the MBA degree would further that career - or enable you to better achieve your career goals.</p>
<p>Obviously, from this work experience, it needs to be the meaningful start to a career - not just biding your time before going off to something better. That's why the typical average work experience of people in Business school is 4-6 years, and a 35-year-old MBA candidate isn't uncommon. It's not meant as an immediate continuation from college.</p>
<p>In addition to that work experience, of course, college GPA and GMAT score are a distant second in terms of quality. The interview process for "promising" applicants is also particularly rigorous, based on what people at HBS and CBS have told me - it's apparently a battery of interviews that are very in-depth and thorough.</p>
<p>For a top 5 MBA program the general successful applicant has a 3.5+ gpa, 700+ GMAT and 4-7 years of work experience along with strong interviewing skills and excellent recommendations.</p>