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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The percentage of tenure track professors having parents with a PhD is probably more about their ability to navigate the academic system and family/household SES than inherited intelligence. I don't think was especially brilliant relative to my peers, but I knew how to get the opportunities I needed at each stage because my parents and their friends gave me guidance.

- A PhD daughter of a tenured track professor and MD-PhD clinician.[/quote]
Totally agree with this. I am not in academia but was on that career path early on and have taught as an adjunct as a side gig. I know a lot of people in academia at many levels (full professors to career adjuncts) around the country and [b]the ones who did well all had parents who were successful academics[/b]. The ones who never got higher than adjunct or lecturer did not. It’s a world unto itself and the rules are hard to grasp. I have always thought that they understood it better because they were around it all their lives and got advice from their parents, which makes sense, as that’s what parents do.[/quote]

Tenured prof who had blue collar parents here. I have a number of colleagues who are first-gen academics. They're often the strivers, in a good sense, and work their @sses off to figure out the weird rules and succeed.[/quote]

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