Please submit a PowerPoint presentation along with your application

So says the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Amit Agarwal, over at Digital Inspiration, points us to this story about the ever-evolving admissions requirements at b-schools. I’m sure I’m not the only one that has suffered through inane PowerPoint presentations, so I hope this focus on presentation skills goes deeper than just the admissions process. While every b-school student won’t become David Byrne (yes, that David Byrne), there is a definite need to tame the unwieldy medium.