Applying to ERSP

Before you apply, we recommend that you read the questions below, prepare your responses in a separate file, and then copy and paste them into the application.

1. What do you hope to get out of participating in the CS Early Research Scholars Program?

2. One goal of this program is to broaden access to university research to students who have historically faced barriers—financial commitments, lack of role models/community/knowledge of graduate study, first-generation, etc. Please describe how your participating in this program would be helpful to you in overcoming such barriers.

3. Another goal of ERSP is to promote and support a diverse CS community along many dimensions including (but not necessarily limited to) gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, ability, sexual orientation, and first-in-family to attend university. Part of building this community involves creating a space where students from under-served groups feel included. Explain your understanding of how being from a under-served group affects a person's experience in CSE and how you came about this understanding.