Anonymous wrote:French, Spanish, English.

Helping a kid at my kid's school.

also is first gen mean first gen in this country?

Nobody gives a $h!t. It's not special.

Yes, it means in this country.

--Fluent in three, with kids fluent in three. It's common.

Three languages in of themselves won't impress an AO anymore than being from obscure part of the world. Three languages plus the stats or some compelling explanation for the languages (aside from "i was born into it") would do the trick.

I said first gen even though my mother was college educated in her home country, but worked as a housekeeper in the US.

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Having said that, what do you think is the high-low on the percent of immigrant families who “lie” about this. My guess would be 20% are not actually first gen. Could be much higher.

There are definitely kids whose parents went to school in foreign countries who are saying first gen with the thought that American colleges have no way to check on where their parents went to school.

You can tell from the parents career track. DH and I are immigrants. I work for the WB, he is a journalist. If would be impossible to pretend we aren’t college educated.

Also, our kids are fluent in 3 languages. No telling yet how much it would help.

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Anonymous wrote:
Having said that, what do you think is the high-low on the percent of immigrant families who “lie” about this. My guess would be 20% are not actually first gen. Could be much higher.

There are definitely kids whose parents went to school in foreign countries who are saying first gen with the thought that American colleges have no way to check on where their parents went to school.

LinkedIn?

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Anonymous wrote:French, Spanish, English.

Helping a kid at my kid's school.

also is first gen mean first gen in this country?

It means neither parent can be a university grad — anywhere.

Having said that, what do you think is the high-low on the percent of immigrant families who “lie” about this. My guess would be 20% are not actually first gen. Could be much higher.

My understanding is that this may differ among schools as some US colleges/universities view it as "university graduate with a knowledge of the American system". Not sure if true,but this is something that I read online within the past week.

Fluency in French, English, & Spanish will be noted, but none are considered critical languages by the US government as all are fairly common in the US. Therefore, while this should help regarding admissions, it may not move the needle much unless tied into a major and one's career goal.

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Having said that, what do you think is the high-low on the percent of immigrant families who “lie” about this. My guess would be 20% are not actually first gen. Could be much higher.

There are definitely kids whose parents went to school in foreign countries who are saying first gen with the thought that American colleges have no way to check on where their parents went to school.

Anonymous wrote:Depends. Is the applicant from a Scandinavian country or Switzerland where everyone is multilingual? If so, admissions committees probably won't give them a leg up.

City kid with a Spanish speaking dad and French speaking mom.

Anonymous wrote:French, Spanish, English.

Helping a kid at my kid's school.

also is first gen mean first gen in this country?

It means neither parent can be a university grad — anywhere.

Having said that, what do you think is the high-low on the percent of immigrant families who “lie” about this. My guess would be 20% are not actually first gen. Could be much higher.

Dartmouth likes these kids if high stats.

Depends. Is the applicant from a Scandinavian country or Switzerland where everyone is multilingual? If so, admissions committees probably won't give them a leg up.

Middlebury

Yes, I think it's worth mentioning regardless of major.

First gen means first gen to college.

I don't think the immigrant child of, say, two French doctors will get an admissions bump.

Hopefully applying as linguistics?

French, Spanish, English.

Helping a kid at my kid's school.

also is first gen mean first gen in this country?