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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an immigrant (white), so no legacies in my circle.  However, I know 7 kids at Ivies - 3 Cornell, 3 UPenn, 1 Yale; I am sure none are legacies, URM or athletes.  All graduated from public schools.[/quote]

But are they first generation. [/quote]

Not necessarily.  Their parents could have gone to college in their home country.[/quote]

Many colleges actually count this as first generation. [/quote]

That doesn’t make sense. It makes a huge difference in a kid’s life to have a parent who went to college, no matter where the college was located. My parents did not go to college and I have seen how different my childhood was from that of people whose parents went to college.

An immigrant with a college education can provide a vastly better type of upbringing for their kids than my non-college educated parents could, both in monetary terms, but also in the level of discourse and knowledge of academic subjects. Those kids have a huge leg up on kids whose parents did not go to any college, anywhere. 
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