Both of my parents earned an associates degree, not a bachelors, so am I considered first generation for UC’s?
No. I thought you were referring to immigrant status?
Your parents had schooling beyond high school. Anything post-secondary is still an education.
I was told that first generation meant that neither of your parents attended college. They didn’t distinguish between AA and BA. It really is for you to decide however.
Write that you’re first generation. No one checks it anyway, and it doesn’t really help in the process unless you are a minority (in terms of race).
If your parents attended any college and got a degree, you are not first generation. I have seen in some circumstances though where degrees obtained outside of the US do not really count.
I’ve never seen a case where first-generation included parents with foreign college degrees - that would cover a lot of Asian and Asian-American students.
Your parents went to college, you are not first gen. Very clear, and misrepresenting yourself is not a good idea.
@firstsax According to UC’s own definition, you are considered first generation.
Source: http://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/chapters/chapter-1.html#1.2.2
(Note that other colleges may define first generation differently.)
There’s no “First Gen” box to tick. You simply enter your parents’ level of education (regardless of which country their school was), and then each college decides according to its own criteria.
I always wondered about this: What if just one parent has a BA and the other is just a HS grad?
Then the student is not first gen