William & Mary application seems to split SOP into two questions?

[Lycaon pictus]

Hi everyone. I'm currently stressing over finishing my applications, and it seems like William & Mary splits the content you'd expect to go in a statement of purpose into two different sections? The last two questions are

"Provide any additional information regarding your background, extracurricular activities, or general experience" and "Write a statement composed in your own words describing your career plans and the reasons you wish to pursue graduate study"

It's an online application with space to enter your answers (I'm writing/editing mine in a word document so I can paste them in once I'm done). The open-ended questions have either "short response" size boxes, or "long response" size boxes, but no word or character limit. The latter has a long response box, and the former a short response box. Obviously the one that says write a statement is the one asking for the statement of purpose, but the question before it asks for "information regarding your background". So would that be the place where I talk about the whole first generation college grad thing, or should it be in both? I don't want to have an anemic statement of purpose because I put 30% of the information in another question, but would writing that info twice be redundant--or worse, rub the admissions committee the wrong way?

The third to last question asks for a description of all research experience btw. I'm applying to their MS Biology program.

Edited January 3, 2017 by Lycaon pictus