MFA-IA portfolio - artist statement? new addendum or old?

After having lunch with someone who graduated two residencies ago there seemed to be some discrepancy in what is expected in an artist statement. She said it is not a typical artist statement and she had to reflect on her work in comparison to her peers. Seems like a strange thing to put in an artist statement. Then I went back to the addendum
Do I read this correctly?

The new addendum states

Artist Statement

This is a concise introduction of yourself as an artist to your communities. Here you communicate your passions, highlighting the aspects of your practice that are most important to you. You may choose to mention specific projects, significant themes or issues in your work, the expressive forms you practice, as well as the critical and/or artistic contexts in which you place yourself.

The old addendum states.

This is about you as an artist. Introduce yourself to a general public - this statement may also serve in your professional career, so you want to present yourself and your work with accuracy, yet positively; you want to do justice to your strengths as a practicing artist. This statement is also the place where you locate yourself within the larger context of contemporary art, defining the major trends to which your work is related giving credit to the artists who have influenced you, attaching yourself to a lineage of other artists.

Now, frankly I like the new addendum -artist statement, it seems like we do enough of locating ourselves in within the larger context of contemporary art within the portfolio. Who wants to have a bunch of other artists reflected in their artist statement? If this has been deleted, which I hope it has, I am glad. I do need further clarification.