New Way, S-2 Offer Scholarships Through Twitter

Iowa - University of Iowa in the United States have a unique way to offer MBA scholarships. Campuses located in Iowa City is using social networking sites, Twitter to offer scholarships worth USD37 thousand or worth Rp315 million.
How to get a special scholarship for the Americans is easy. Interested enough to answer the question, "What makes you worthy of being the best Tippie MBA candidate? Be creative! "A maximum of 140 characters.

Director of Recruitment and Admission Tippie School of Management, Jodi Schafer stated, the use of game is the replacement for the application to apply for scholarships, which are usually in the form of essays.

"We want (the applicant) to show more about themselves. This will give us depth and showed us more about a candidate than indicated an essay, "Schafer said as quoted from Huffingtonpost, Monday (11/07/2011).

Schafer said, applicants are encouraged to use Twitter application. Then, associated with social networking sites like Facebook, blogs or sites with full resume as a way to display their credentials online.

"We want to learn more about the applicant, we want to get more than through the regular application. It's a better way to showcase the talent of applicants, "he explained.

Acceptance criteria of this scholarship program is based on the game, academic performance, professional experience, and leadership.