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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We left it blank.

Kid did very well in admissions.

You are [b]not required to [/b]check the box.  [/quote]

Yes. But why an outdated question? To help families make decision when they are looking at the CDS? [/quote]

There’s tons of outdated stuff on the common app, like where your parents were educated. Why should that matter? Yet the question remains. Skip it if you don’t want to answer. [/quote]

Wrong advice. It’s more nuanced than that
Schools use that info in a way that benefits them.

Colleges want students who come from families who also attended highly selective universities. It is one of the metrics they use in landscape or slate as a predictive measure of, ease of graduation, ease of making payments and likelihood of alumni success. It’s also why certain colleges, in the top 20, ask for where siblings attended college. They are not just nosy. They want to see how focused on education your family is. How successful the siblings are.

Anecdotally, our private college counselor told us that if both parents attended highly selective universities for undergrad and graduate school, there is a higher correlation with admissions to T20. So even if your top stats kid has better “pure metrics” to peers from same high school, but your kids parents attended no name regional colleges, and the peers parents went to Wharton, there are bonus points allocated to the peer in the admissions process over your kid. Get smart on how slate and landscape work in the admissions process.

And if you or your spouse attended regional or not well-regarded colleges, consider omitting that education information entirely. If you attended highly selective universities absolutely include that information.[/quote]

I found this comical.  It's all just speculation there is no facts or evidence to back up anything you said here.
Your "private college counselor" is not worthy her fees.  She got the causation completely wrong.  Kids of successful parents got in T20 because those parents care about their kids education thus the student quality is higher, and because the kids carry parents genes, smarter kids.  They didn't get in merely because parents attended highly selective schools, that's correlation not causation.  The rest of it is just speculation.

Following that reasoning, parents attended selective colleges should omit education information because that put your kids at a disadvantage--That, they are so privileged yet perform just okay.  Versus someone less privileged performed the same.  You know which one to admit![/quote]

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