PS As an applicant, you are required to submit an essay (approximately 1,000 words) describing your academic and professional background, your career goals, and how the program will help you achieve your goals. Your essay should contain only true information and your own, original writing. If you include a quote or text written by any other person or published in any printed or online format, you must surround the copied text in quotation marks (") and indicate the original source of the text. Heinz College admissions utilizes several methods to identify plagiarized and falsified content in uploaded documents. Submission of false or plagiarized material as part of the application for admission may result in automatic denial of admission to any degree program. CV As an applicant, you are required to submit a résumé along with your application for admission. Please submit a one or two page summary of your education skills, accomplishments, employment experience and volunteer experience. The résumé MUST be current and include all part time and full time work experience, the dates of when the employment began and ended and a brief description of your responsibilities under the title of the position. Click here for an example of a résumé. Please consider using the "Optional Essay" to address the reason for any "gap" in your résumé, if applicable. Your résumé should contain only true information and your own, original writing. If you include a quote or text written by any other person or published in any printed or online format, you must surround the copied text in quotation marks (") and indicate the original source of the text. Information reported on your resume is subject to verification. Heinz College admissions utilizes several methods to identify plagiarized and falsified content in uploaded documents. Submission of false or plagiarized material as part of the application for admission may result in automatic denial of admission to any degree program. Fee The Heinz College does not charge an application fee. RL All applicants are required to have two (2) recommendation forms submitted on their behalf. Recommendations should be provided from employers, supervisors, professors, or others who are able to comment on your professional and educational goals and potential. At least one (1) of your recommenders should know you in a professional setting (full-time employment, internship, part-time employment, research, non-academic extracurricular activity, etc.) You may opt to have up to three (3) recommendations submitted in support of your application. Please note: recommendations from friends, family members or acquaintances, and other sources not able to evaluate applicants on an academic or professional basis, will not be accepted. Recommendations are submitted electronically through the online application system by your recommenders. We do not accept recommendations submitted on paper. You must enter the names and contact information for each recommendation provider into the application system. Prior to requesting that your recommendation providers complete the recommendation online, be sure to check with them to ensure that you register them with the correct (preferably professional) email address. Please let your recommenders know that they may upload an electronic document or scanned copy of a paper-based recommendation using the online system rather than using the text box response fields (but they must upload their recommendation via the online system). All recommenders will be asked to provide brief answers to the following questions. Recommenders may skip questions that are not applicable to what they know about you. How long and in what capacity have you known the applicant? Please clearly indicate your position in relation to the applicant (i.e. - professor/instructor, direct supervisor, mentor, advisor, colleague, etc.). Do you believe the applicant gives her/his maximum effort and perseveres towards the stated goal when given a task, assignment or project? Please provide details to support your answer. Discuss how the applicant works in a group (including interpersonal skills) and/or functions in a leadership role. Describe the applicant's ability to communicate in oral and written form. Provide an example where the applicant worked to solve a problem or handled a difficult situation in a professional manner. If you are able, please describe the applicant's understanding of, background in and commitment to this academic/professional field. Please share any additional information about the applicant’s personal qualities, maturity, academic or professional record which you believe would be helpful to the admissions committee. Please select your overall recommendation regarding this individual's application for admission for graduate study at Carnegie Mellon University. (Recommenders must select one of these responses: Strongly recommend, Recommend, Recommend with reservations, Do not recommend.) Transcript Transcripts from Previous Institutions All applicants to the master's degree programs at the Heinz College must provide documentation of their completed undergraduate degree (a bachelor's degree or its equivalent) from a regionally accredited institution prior to matriculation. (Applicants who have not completed their bachelor's degree by the time they submit their application for admission may be admitted to the Heinz College with the condition they submit their final transcript, including their date of graduation, prior to the start of their first semester at Heinz.) All applicants are required to submit an official undergraduate transcript or transcript evaluation report from the degree-granting institution (please see instructions below) which should be entered as "Undergraduate (Bachelor's or MBBS) Degree-Awarding Institution" within the application for admission. We must receive the OFFICIAL transcript (or transcript evaluation report) for this school before your application will be considered complete. Please note: the official transcript may differ from the unofficial transcript available to you as a student/alumnus. do not list institutions where a transcript was not issued. do not list secondary/higher secondary or high school.