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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Latina here, with immigrant parents. both my parents came to the US after high school with no money and worked their way through college [b](both actually went to University of MD, college park).[/b] They absolutely believed education was the way ahead and did it for themselves. They came from middle class families in their countries, although none of my grandparents finished high school.

Spanish was my first language and I grew up middle class in flyover country. My parents pushed us to achieve in school and to study engineering which they saw as a path to economic security. My siblings and I all went to HYP with lots of financial aid. We all studied engineering.

I went on to get a PhD and I make a decent income. But I married someone (white) who make a lot of money and our HHI is low seven figures.

My siblings picked careers thinking about the money because at HYP you are surrounded by money and they decided they wanted to also be wealthy. One is in tech and one is an attorney. I didn’t care as much about money and I work at a nonprofit in a senior role.

My DH’s family is very focused on income and getting a good job. He and all of his siblings make 7+ figures. They all had useless liberal arts major degrees for undergrad because they knew they were going into law/medicine/finance, so just needed to make good grades to get into grad school.

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That's the key right there no matter what race you are. If you start out with parents who were college grads themselves you're already ahead in life than others who didn't have the fortune of having both parents who attended college. [/quote]

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