<p>when colleges ask if i am the first generation to college, should i say yes or no if my parents graduated from Bangladesh? (I live in the US now)</p>
<p>No, you are not.</p>
<p>If they went to college then you are not first generation.</p>
<p>I don’t remember the Common App asking for first-generation status. All you do, I think, is list the colleges your parents have attended, and the colleges decide for themselves whether you are first-gen.</p>
<p>^Correct, different colleges and programs have different definitions of first gen, some do not consider you first gen if your parents ever attended college, others consider you first gen if your parents never got a degree.</p>
<p>However, for the OP, college is college, no matter what country it was in.</p>