Am currently in the final semester of my undergraduate degree and hoping to eventually get into a renown Msc in Finance program (I have my eyes t on ESADE, Barcelona). A colleague of mine is a year older than me and has thefore finished his degree, having recently been accepted at ESADE with the same GPA as me.
I am planning on taing a year off, come July, when I'm done with Uni, and was planning on using that time to take the GMAT exam, and occupy the remaining months with multiple Work Experiences, including one's abroad.
With that being said, my best shot at getting in is in an early application round, in January/February, but I won't have any work experience by then, since that's when i was planning on doing it.
My question is, how important is it, when i show up to the interview, to have already been through the work experience, as opposed to having it booked for later that year?