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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been a nurse for 15 years.

I come from Ivy league educated parents and went to nursing school at Hopkins after first getting a degree in biology from a liberal arts college. 
My nursing classmates at Hopkins also all had bachelors degrees from places like Smith and Williams and Cornell and had parents who were doctors and lawyers, etc.  
Many of us were dating med students or guys who worked in finance or similar.

Then I started working as an RN at Hopkins and other hospitals in the DC/Baltimore area and many of my co-workers had associates degrees from community 
colleges and were married to cops and construction workers.

It's a funny mix of people that pursue nursing. I'd say it definitely leans towards to blue collar end of things.  And I love this about nursing.  People who go into 
it are from all walks of life but tend to be really good people who aren't choosing a career based upon the money or prestige. [/quote]

Having gone to an elite LAC, I can't think of many of my peers who went into nursing.  Lots went onto law school, academia, high school teaching, med school.  [/quote]

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