各位大大好
我想要申请UPittsburgh的工业工程研究所硕士班，刚刚在浏览学校申请网页时
发现了
https://oafa.pitt.edu/apply/admissions-process/international-students/
Letters of Recommendation
While we appreciate your teachers, counselors, and other mentors taking
the time to write recommendation letters on your behalf, we find letters
are beneficial in very limited circumstances (for example: providing
context for variance in your overall academic performance).
We recommend that you submit responses to the Short Answer Questions
and use that space to explain or clarify what most recommenders would
cover in a letter.
主要是要回答三个问题
Describe yourself
Describe why study in the U.S and at Pitt are good choices for you
Describe an experience where you had to adjust to a culture other than
your own.
想请问过去有申请UPitt的大大们，你们过去也有写这些Essay吗？
因为我看了过去的录取的文章，似乎都没有提到，不知道这是后来才需要的还是大学
本科生申请才要而研究所不用？
因此，我有点困惑是不是要写？