Is it possible to be accepted into Grad School with zero work experience?

mgcollege
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 01:13:42 +0000

Ok, so as I have explained in another post I am an US citizen who under some weird circumstances ended up studying at a 4-year Brazilian college for undergrad. I applied to this school, knowing close to elementary school Portuguese, just for the heck of it because I didn’t want to do nothing after high school and by some miracle, plus some intense language learning on my part, I got in! Long story short, I always thought “this is temporary, I’ll transfer to a US school later” Well, it’s been 3 years and now I have 1 year left before graduation. I wouldn’t say it has been extremely difficult but there have been many times where being a foreigner definitely asked more effort on my part than it would for other native-speakers of Portuguese. I am now at a place where I can say my Portuguese is fluent, however I feel as if that’s the only skill I have obtained during these 3 years. Now, as I plan to apply for Graduate schools I suddenly face the reality that I have not had a single internship, work experience during my college years. Hence my question: is it possible/ even worth the time to apply to a school with no work experience?
I studied/ study advertising so I do have a pretty varied portfolio of print and audio-visual pieces, plus I don’t know if my moving from country to country counts as relevant experience or is just an interesting challenge, and I’m fluent in 4 languages. So is it a good idea to apply nonetheless? My programs of interest include International Business/Advertising/ Marketing.
Excuse any unnecessary details,
Thanks