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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to leave parents out of the equation, don’t ask if parents went to college and higher degree achieved.[/quote]

A kid who has parents who’ve achieved graduate degrees is more privileged than a first Gen kid. That matters.[/quote]

It shouldn’t. You can’t pick your parents anymore than you can pick the color of your skin or sex. It’s just as wrong to hold it against a kid that their parent is uneducated as that their parent is educated. [/quote]

Most colleges don't hold the fact a parent is not college educated against a student....that would be first gen student and colleges give preference to them (I agree with this---it benefits everyone to help everyone who wants it to get a college education).  Every college we looked at touts what percent of first gen students they have and tout all the programs to assist these students (and that's a good thing---I was first gen and it's a different world when your parents don't really understand the process because it's foreign to them). [/quote]

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