I’m applying to VIPER at Penn, and I’m working on the essay for the program. The prompt is below.
Describe your interests in energy science and technology drawing on your previous academic, research, and extracurricular experiences that allow you to appreciate the scientific or engineering challenges related to energy and sustainability. If you have previous experience with research, describe your research project (outlining the goals, hypotheses, approach, results, and conclusions). Describe how your experiences have shaped your research and interests, and identify how the VIPER program will help you achieve your goals. Also, please indicate which VIPER majors in both science and engineering are most interesting to you at this time. (400-650 words)
Should I include specific data from research that I have done, or just summarize the meaning through my conclusions without specific numbers? Should I be writing this to a scientific audience?