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the diversity essay or the world you come from essay it comes in lots of forms brown tell us about a place or community you call home how has it shaped your perspective caltech the process of discovery best advances when people from various backgrounds experiences and perspectives come together how do you see yourself contributing to the diversity of caltech's community yale reflect on your membership in a community why is your involvement important to you how has it shaped you you may define community however you like again colleges ask this diversity question in lots of ways and thinking about how to attack it let's start with harvard's dean of admissions and his advice that he gives under oath at the harvard admissions trial here's dean fitzsimmons we're looking for diversity in all its forms not just simply ethnic diversity or economic diversity religious diversity you name it the more diverse the students are the richer the education we're also looking to some extent for geographic diversity but it's much more than that it's diversity of thinking it's diversity of academic interests follow the harvard dean's advice whatever your diversity category ethnic economic religious geographic you should always say something smart about how the world you come from makes you a different type of thinker whether it's a farm in montana a neighborhood in chicago or a small town in west virginia if the world you come from entails overcoming a challenge like poverty prejudice or provincialism that's a strong story tell it just remember our same advice applies to those experiences try to find a way to connect your story to ideas that you want to study as a student at a university so first let's look at how you take an easy intellectual approach to this question i come from an intellectual community tied together by one core concept numbers from archimedes to euclid descartes and leibniz ramanujan to hilbert i see myself as part of this century-long conversation that's much deeper than zeros and ones a conversation about the structure of reality when i'm checking out at the grocery store okay here's another example same exact model i come from an intellectual community tied together by one core concept do no harm from hippocrates to galen apgar to toxic i see myself as part of this century-long conversation that's much deeper than prescribing pills and checking temperatures a conversation about the structure of the human immune system when i'm checking out at the grocery store so you see how easy it is to dive right into your academic interests and to situate yourself in that intellectual community now don't follow that exact model but that should give you a good place to start but now let's look at a traditional approach when i think about my father one thing stands out more than others his calluses when he showed me how to grip a football how to change the oil on our car or how to tape off the corner of a wall before painting i always remember feeling his hardened calluses rough on my skin his calluses intimidated me i knew what they represented a lifetime of hard manual labor of picking up heavy buckets of paint two at a time of carrying unwieldy aluminum ladders of gripping the handle of a paint roller for hours for months for years calluses are earned when you paint a room there's always opportunities to cut corners who will ever climb up on the sink and look behind the upper edge of the cabinet to notice if the paint touches the wood but my father would he was the type of man who would climb up on that sink balance himself on a ladder and make sure that corner was painted to perfection some jobs we could have taken two weeks right the family was gone on a trip just me and my father and they're beautiful coscob home my father had us there by 7 am took 20 minutes to wolf down an italian cold cut sandwich for lunch and we worked till the sun went down he didn't want his clients to overpay for one minute we knocked that job out in five days that's how you earn calluses i don't have any calluses like my father he didn't attend some fancy college he made his way in the world tending bar and painting walls to perfection sometimes he doesn't think he's taught me anything that he had nothing to offer a bookish college-bound thinker but he did he taught me about taking pride in your work when i'm reading plato or hemingway or tennyson i don't skim i read every last word when i'm writing an essay on pascal's wager i don't stop at one draft i rewrite it five times ten times as long as it takes until i'm proud of it and when i go to class i'm never late just like my father's painting clients the point isn't whether my teacher will know and appreciate my hard work and diligence the point is that i'll know my father doesn't realize he taught me how to think but he did because the habits he practiced that he modeled for me that gave him his calluses those are ways of thinking of being of living how you approach painting a wall tells you a lot about how you approach anything reading a book writing an essay or attending class i don't have my father's calluses but i'm lucky to have his way of thinking now note this one is light on an academic connection and so we have to be careful that someone doesn't finish this essay and think well that was a touching piece on his father but why do my professors want him at our school notice this essay it does just enough right by making a connection to the way the father's blue-collar background helps the author think a professor definitely wants a kid who comes to class every morning on time reads every assignment with care and takes pride in everything they write and also notice we didn't have to say anything about the prompts language right there's no need to say and i come from a world of calluses or something like that the essay doesn't leave any doubt that you're talking about where you come from and how it shaped the way you think and see the world 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