How “much” would 1st gen help you, on a scale of 1 to 10 haha, in ivy schools.
<p>First generation inner city black or latino with $20K family income at a really bad high school? Big boost. First generation Asian immigrant going to suburban or magnet school? Small. It's still going to come down to URM status, low income status and beating the adds at your school significantly.</p>
<p>Is it still considered first generation if the parents went to high school & college in a different country, but finished med school here?</p>
<p>i guess it depends on if they ask what colleges or what US colleges they went to</p>
<p>Here are definitions of first generation college students that I found on a web site: "The least restrictive definition is the one used by TRIO (neither parent completed a 4-year college degree); most restrictive is that no one in their family completed any post-secondary education. " <a href="http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/CandIGDivision/Post-ConfReports/2003/FirstGenerationAdvising-PostConfReport.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/CandIGDivision/Post-ConfReports/2003/FirstGenerationAdvising-PostConfReport.htm</a></p>
<p>a lot of times I thought it was if they went to college at all, regardless of whether they recieved a degree</p>
<p>Oh..I thought if you were the first to go to college in the US, then it counted. I didn't know they meant the first one to complete college in general.</p>
<p>speakin of which..i got a question..my mom and dad never attended college. They finished high school and got married and moved to america. But i'm azn..would it still help>?</p>
<p>Onfire, I would say you are First Gen. going to college, and that's all that matters. If you were URM, that would be a bonus, but being asian is not going to be a negative.
IMHO, being First Generation anything is a HUGE boost. Good Luck.</p>
<p>And they do mean completeing 4 years of college. Thus if your mom went for 3 years and then dropped out, it's counted as not having any college.</p>
<p>regarding the income thing...</p>
<p>"First generation inner city black or latino with $20K family income at a really bad high school?"</p>
<p>i'm a 1st gen at one of the top schools in the state, and i'm asian.
and my parents make 40k a year in a factory</p>
<p>BUT, I run a company that makes another 70k a year.
How would that be counted, when looking at income?</p>
<p>"and my parents make 40k a year in a factory</p>
<p>BUT, I run a company that makes another 70k a year.
How would that be counted, when looking at income?
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<p>does your company make 70k a year, or do you make 70k a year?
id think if its the latter they would expect you to pay for pretty much your whole education. dont count on getting much fin aid.</p>
<p>"Is it still considered first generation if the parents went to high school & college in a different country, but finished med school here?"</p>
<p>that is most definitely not first generation.</p>
<p>well, my family makes 70k because of the company, but i basically run it, but it's registered under my dads name</p>
<p>is that considered "low income"? (low income generally HELPs someone get in, right?) because my parents make very little.</p>
<p>" (low income generally HELPs someone get in, right?)"</p>
<p>i wouldnt think so, most top school admissions are need blind, so i they wont know whether you are rich or poor.</p>
<p>need blind is just that they don't care whether or not you can pay...but they know if you are po' or not.</p>
<p>"need blind is just that they don't care whether or not you can pay...but they know if you are po' or not." </p>
<p>Um....no...Need Blind means that the admissions committee NEVER sees your financial status...</p>
<p>I do not understand why people say URM's and Asians. Asians are URM's they are just not URMs at the Ivies, Stanford, Caltech, Hopkins, MIT and some of the elite LACs. With over 3000 colleges in this country there are a large number of schools where being asian is a majot hook.</p>
<p>I think it honestly depends on your own credentials. I was a first-gen who got into Stanford (ah, the tree), but all of my stats made me an otherwise competitive applicant and, parents and college aside, I probably had about the same chance without being a first-gen. My point is, if you already have competitive stats, it might give you a boost, but if not, I don't think it will help.</p>
<p>Not meaning to sound retarded here, but what does first-gen mean? does it mean you are the first in your family to go to university? Or does it apply to one university in particular, e.g "I'm a Yale first gen" or something.</p>
<p>Definition listed iin the thread that NSM posted:</p>
<p>The least restrictive definition of first gen is the one used by TRIO (neither parent completed a 4-year college degree); most restrictive is that no one in their family completed any post-secondary education.</p>