普渡网申Diversity Essay

在Diversity Essay 页面看到下面一段话：
Many graduate programs use the diversity essay as one criterion when determining recommendations for fellowships/funding. The diversity essay should be 500 words or less responding to the following statement:

Describe your leadership, work experience, service experience, or other significant involvement with racial, ethnic, socio-economic, or educational communities that have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education, and how these experiences would promote a diversity of views, experiences, and ideas in the pursuit of research, scholarship, and creative excellence.

The Purdue University Doctoral Fellowship, David M. Knox Fellowship, or George Washington Carver Fellowship, requires the submission of the diversity essay. Potential recipients of these fellowships are students who have received a degree from an accredited U.S. high school (include name of U.S. High School, City, State, and Zip code) and demonstrate superior academic achievements and abilities.


这个是否就是说只有上面列的那几个奖学金需要写diversity essay？
然而由于我们国际学生申不了，所以不需要写？

求有经验的人解释，谢谢

fuhan3288 发表于 2016-1-7 23:32
可是我们没有那些ratial ethnic的经历写什么啊……

我感觉一些社会服务经历什么的都可以写，课外活动啥的，甚至家庭背景，尽量挖掘一下，实在没啥好写的可以稍微艺术加工一下。。。。

看到好多小伙伴都在纠结这个问题，我觉得最好还是发邮件问小米，以下是小米给我的回复，明确说明是要的。最近放假可能小米不会回复，与其纠结不如写一篇出来，反正总比发现要却没写的好。但愿对大家有帮助！

PS.我是申请统计学，同时我也和小米说了我不是美国高中毕业，不是美国人。

Thank you for your interest in the Department of Statistics at Purdue University. I am sorry if there is some confusion for regarding a diversity essay. To answer your question, yes, you do need to submit a diversity essay with your application.



Thank you,



Anna M. Hook

Graduate Coordinator

Department of Statistics, Purdue University

我也在纠结，在graduate program requirements那个页面，左侧有所有的program,我全部都点开看了，supporting materials的要求里面，只有Chemistry和chemistry engineering这两个申请专业中有写出diversity essay两个字，而且还是带括号（optional）的，跟resume一样，也是optional。还有Industrial engineering和mechanical engineering这两个专业的ｓｕｐｐｏｒｔｉｎｇ　doucments 里面有个fellowship essay, 但是是针对u.s. citizen的。很觉得应该不要这个diversity essay. 已经发邮件问了小秘，还没恢复，圣诞休息了。我是materials engineering专业。

顶一下。。。

不用，那个fellowship你拿不了.

但是我申请的专业官网上写了  Fellowship Essay/Diversity Statement: Requred for all applications.。。我也在纠结写不写呢。。

问了CS的小秘，很高冷地回了一句"No"

要写的，我刚问过小米，他说要写的。不同专业可能要求不一样。

只知道cs不用写

统计好像是要写的，系里的网站上写的是要的

嘿嘿白白 发表于 2015-12-22 14:31
要写的，我刚问过小米，他说要写的。不同专业可能要求不一样。

你是哪个专业的，小秘说要写？