School Adds PowerPoint to Application

July 30, 2007 By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer School Adds PowerPoint to Application (AP)

Rose Martinelli, associate dean for student recruitment and admissions at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business stands in the Gleacher Center lobby in Chicago, Friday, July 27, 2007. As technology advances the school is now requiring applicants to include a PowerPoint presentation in their applications. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

(AP) -- At business meetings the world over, PowerPoint-style presentations are often met with yawns and glazed eyes. But at one of the world's top business schools, such slide shows are now an entrance requirement.



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