How long did it take you to write your college essay? Or your grad school essay? I know I agonized for months over the perfect 500-800 words that would make admissions people fall in love with me.
140 characters is all it’s going to take for one Twitter-savvy MBA candidate to get a full ride at the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Management in the fall. That’s 140 characters for a two-year program, valued at $37,000. Candidates have to tweet an answer to this question: “What makes you an exceptional Tippie MBA candidate and full-time MBA hire? Creativity encouraged!” (The school also advises Twitter entrants to include a link with their tweets to other social media outlets, blogs, and/or websites with full résumés.)
I say kudos to Iowa for rolling with the times and innovating the admissions process. But part of me wonders if this is also a way to combat the rise in the use of text/internet slang in formal essays and the decline in writing skills of American students (IMHO).
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