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July 30, 2007
Business-School Applicants Must Submit PowerPoint-Like Slides to U. of Chicago
If top business-school applicants need a break from GMAT prep and essay writing, they should browse the Web for inspirational quotes and clip art.
The admissions office at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business is requiring for the first time this year a PowerPoint presentation — or something like it. “In four slides or less,” the online instructions say, “please provide readers with content that captures who you are.”
Those readers, it turns out, are sort of bored with essays. The new requirement will give admissions officers a better sense of their applicants, says Rosemaria Martinelli, associate dean of admissions and financial aid. Plus, she says, “it will make my job of reading a million applications much more enjoyable.”
If applicants don’t have (or don’t like) Microsoft PowerPoint, they could use other publishing software, like Quark Xpress, or just make collages on four sheets of blank paper and send them to Chicago, Ms. Martinelli says.
She has been thrilled with what she’s seen already: lots of photos and poetry. One current student, in a test run, wrote a play featuring a Greek chorus questioning him about his application, according to the Associated Press. —Sara Lipka
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— Robert R. Bruner Aug 10, 01:24 PM #
As a retired President and CEO of a pharmaceutical company I must say that, although the powerpoint initiative, sounds very nice and very up to date, too much business these days is “managed by powerpoint” instead of managed by intelligence, knowledge and people skills. I have always been able to fall back on basic knowledge acquired while at GSB years ago. Clipart savviness, in my mind,does not even rate as a skill that would prompt me to hire anyone from U of C GSB – just give me a talented, well educated individual with decent people skills.
— Paul Kleutghen Aug 13, 06:30 PM #