PowerPoint presentations are a fairly common occurrence nowadays. And, more often than not, they aren’t as good as they could be. I’ve had gripes with the way most PowerPoint presentations are run for some time… the slides usually just say exactly what the presenter is, so I get bored watching them (I can read faster than they can talk).
The University of Chicago does! In fact, they now require it as part of their business school admissions process.
There are a few potential benefits to this new change. First and foremost, it shows that prospective students are technologically savvy enough to create four pages of PowerPoint slides. Because such presentations are so ubiquitous in the business world, this is crucial knowledge for any prospective business student to have.
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