Great Applications for Business School by Paul Bodine

Author:Paul Bodine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2011-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

PowerPoint or Slide Essays

Chicago and Notre Dame’s “slide presentation” essays are not really refinements of Stern’s “(almost) anything goes” approach in that they curtail rather than expand the potential range of creative responses. Despite both schools’ openness to PDF submissions, PowerPoint has quickly established itself as the standard format, and before you could say “spontaneity be damned,” a de facto “best practice” emerged: applicants began using each slide to capture a different aspect of their profile (professional on one slide, community on another, and so on), with some content-strapped applicants using the first slide as a “cover slide” that introduces the set.

Some applicants thrived within these constraints; some reverted to clichés: timelines, bar charts graphing applicants’ personal “return on assets,” and company logos and generic clip art proliferated. Some ideas mercifully failed altogether, such as submitting four slides completely devoid of visuals and reiterating information readily available elsewhere in their application.

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