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[quote=Anonymous]DS is a junior at a small liberal arts college with no business school or business classes other than in economics. This was fine when DS applied because he always intended to major in history or political science or the like, and he is majoring in history with minors in philosophy and spanish.

He now thinks he may want to get a job in business management or finance or a hedge fund or something akin (he really has no idea what he wants to do, but he is starting to feel stressed about his lack of internships and job prospects and sees his HS friends who are engineers and business majors all with locked down summer internships in those areas leading to full time jobs, and likewise his econ major friends at his slac are in similar situations). He's studying in Spain this spring but hopes to apply for internships at international development agencies, district attorneys offices, etc. but doesn't expect any of those will lead to permanent employment offers, he is just trying to leverage off his fields of study (his career services office encouraged this).

DS asked me if he would be in consideration for an MBA after graduating with a history degree. I know enough to say he needs work experience before applying to MBA programs, especially to make sure he really wants to pursue that degree and career paths, but he doesn't feel hopeful he'll get a job in an mba-related field post-graduation, so he still circles back to wondering if he'll even be a candidate for MBA programs, and what he can do to enhance his chances as someone without a stem or business background. He has a strong GPA and historically has done well on standardized tests, and also was a strong math student in hs (took through bc calculus), although he has never liked math and hasn't pursued any math or stem classes in college other than for graduation requirements.

If you can't tell, spouse and I are former history and political science majors ourselves, who both went to law school, so we have no knowledge of admission to MBA programs, either outdated or current!

Thanks for whatever information and insight you can provide. Also, to clarify, my post is based on DS's questions to me and I just want to help him - I would be very happy for him to do something with his history degree, like to try teaching, a job at a think tank, consider law school, etc.

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