Powerful Point at Univ. of Chicago
They’ll be yawning widely at the University of Chicago admissions office. Seems that someone had the brilliant idea of requiring applicants to the business school to submit a PowerPoint slide show.According to the story, “By adding PowerPoint to its application, Chicago thinks it might attract more students who have the kind of cleverness that can really pay off in business, and fewer of the technocrat types who sometimes give the program a bad name.”
Huh? Seems to me most PowerPoints are decidedly unclever and full of technocrat-type babble.
The problem is PowerPoint is too often used as an electronic teleprompter. As a result, presentations become positively deadly.
Unfortunately – and as Univ. of Chicago correctly foresees-- PowerPoint isn’t going away. It’s become a requirement of doing business and, at this school, a requirement of getting a business education.
Just promise me this…six lines, six words per line for each slide. Ok? That’s not TOO much to ask!
