on common app: include (parent) has a JD?

[Anonymous]

This is a strange question. Why would you hide that? Also, the common app asks you to list parents' employers, which also signals profession (maybe not definitively, but likely).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a strange question. Why would you hide that? Also, the common app asks you to list parents' employers, which also signals profession (maybe not definitively, but likely).

Required to list degree (to show/not show applicant is first gen) but an occupation isn't required (per up thread)

[Anonymous]

I have a JD and am an attorney. I listed it without even thinking about it for kid #1 and will do the same for my younger kids. I think you're overthinking this OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a JD and am an attorney. I listed it without even thinking about it for kid #1 and will do the same for my younger kids. I think you're overthinking this OP!

This questio is not as bad as people asking if kid should report a 1540 SAT because it's not a 1560

[Anonymous]

My spouse and I are both lawyers. Had our kids wanted to become lawyers, we'd still have listed it but we would also have recognized that we did not do our job as parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My spouse and I are both lawyers. Had our kids wanted to become lawyers, we'd still have listed it but we would also have recognized that we did not do our job as parents.

Why? Because your kid wants to be an attorney? Why would you not want that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it better not to include it so reviewers and AOs are not like "ugh, an attorney parent" (regardless if you currently practice)?

If it's true you have to be honest and disclose. Why lie on an application when they ask for all degrees your parent has and their job? They can find out from linkedin.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better not to include it so reviewers and AOs are not like "ugh, an attorney parent" (regardless if you currently practice)?

If it's true you have to be honest and disclose. Why lie on an application when they ask for all degrees your parent has and their job? They can find out from linkedin.

A JD for someone who is practicing could help or signal full pay. How about for someone not currently practicing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My spouse and I are both lawyers. Had our kids wanted to become lawyers, we'd still have listed it but we would also have recognized that we did not do our job as parents.

Why? Because your kid wants to be an attorney? Why would you not want that?

Because, there is a large amount of misery involved and most of what we do is sucking blood from society.

[Anonymous]

Tell me it’s mid-October and you have a senior without telling me it’s mid-October and you have a senior.

Sweet OP, no one cares either way about your law degree. This (and the “what do your parents do?) are questions designed to help identify first-gen students, rural and small town students (no, Takoma Park doesn’t count), or students from other unusual backgrounds.

Even if you succumb to your paranoia and leave off a degree or adjust your job title, your overall family background will still shine through. And that’s OK, because not everyone has a mom who captains an Alaska fishing boat or a dad who runs cattle in the westest of Texas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better not to include it so reviewers and AOs are not like "ugh, an attorney parent" (regardless if you currently practice)?

If it's true you have to be honest and disclose. Why lie on an application when they ask for all degrees your parent has and their job? They can find out from linkedin.

A JD for someone who is practicing could help or signal full pay. How about for someone not currently practicing?

say retired.

[Anonymous]

I have a JD and no longer practice. But my occupation is listed on the Common App, so the colleges know I no longer practice. Yes, you should include all of your education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better not to include it so reviewers and AOs are not like "ugh, an attorney parent" (regardless if you currently practice)?

If it's true you have to be honest and disclose. Why lie on an application when they ask for all degrees your parent has and their job? They can find out from linkedin.

A JD for someone who is practicing could help or signal full pay. How about for someone not currently practicing?

say retired.

I said stay at home parent and listed my JD and masters. I guess this signals full pay as well. Husband is big law partner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better not to include it so reviewers and AOs are not like "ugh, an attorney parent" (regardless if you currently practice)?

If it's true you have to be honest and disclose. Why lie on an application when they ask for all degrees your parent has and their job? They can find out from linkedin.

A JD for someone who is practicing could help or signal full pay. How about for someone not currently practicing?

say retired.

I said stay at home parent and listed my JD and masters. I guess this signals full pay as well. Husband is big law partner.

Retired sounds better than SAHP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better not to include it so reviewers and AOs are not like "ugh, an attorney parent" (regardless if you currently practice)?

If it's true you have to be honest and disclose. Why lie on an application when they ask for all degrees your parent has and their job? They can find out from linkedin.

A JD for someone who is practicing could help or signal full pay. How about for someone not currently practicing?

say retired.

I said stay at home parent and listed my JD and masters. I guess this signals full pay as well. Husband is big law partner.

Retired sounds better than SAHP

Says the misogynist.