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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a friend in college who was the son of Swiss diplomats and spoke 5 languages, but he was also studying international relations himself.  So it depends a bit on the field.

Re: generation, no they won't consider the child of someone with a degree from abroad to be first generation.  It's more about helping kids who don't necessarily have the advantages of being able to navigate the system.[/quote] Why would the child of someone whose parents went to college in a different university be able to navigate the system more than the child of someone whose parents grew up here but didn't go to college?[/quote]

It's not strictly about navigating the system,  it's about research and critical thinking skills. Any person with college experience should have developed them and been able to use them to guide their kid and navigate even in a different country. I used mine when I lived abroad.  Sure, my US degree didn't translate in the other country,  and my job options were limited,  but I used what I had learned in higher ed to figure out a path. You see that with educated immigrants here too. That is not the first gen colleges mean. They mean first to go to college or child of parents who did not attend college anywhere. [/quote]

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