Top MBA without "typical" work experience???

<p>I dunno how amazing your mission experience is. I mean, Mormons all do that for a few years so my guess would be that there’d be a ton of them with very little experience overseeing many others. I also am dubious about your “directly supervised 160 people” in your capacity as your assistant to somebody. What does that even mean? You realize that they’re going to be getting people that did atypical things like that in Africa and whatnot, too. My guess is missionary work, the peace corps, etc is all really in the same sort of basket and doing what you did in the USA isn’t going to stand out that much. </p>

<p>You’ve really got to be totally awesome to get into the tip top programs without real work experience, and a 3.86 from BYU probably doesn’t qualify. Maybe throw in an Olympic Gold Medal? </p>

<p>All that said, MBA admissions seem to be a bit of a black box compared to Law School admissions for example, so who knows? If you have great recommendations and write great essays you might have a shot.</p>