Tuesday, July 12, 2011

TWEET YOUR WAY TO A FULL RIDE


At the University of Iowa, a good tweet is worth 37,000 dollars. That's the price of a full scholarship to the universitie's graduate business school, wich what a hopeful student can win in a contest that takes tweeting to a new level.

Th e school and a handful of others; both corporate and academic have a plan: use tweeting in place of the time-honored essay for students to explain why they should be awarded a scholarship
or hired for a job.

"It's is something different and out of the box." applicant Seth Goldstein said about the plan. One of the applicants, Kinzie Dekkenga, says she worked on her tweet for five days.
"Having to simplify your thoughts down was much harder than I thought."

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