<p>All generations of my family’s history had been to college as far as I could trace (~5 generations). Only two generations went to college in the US though.</p>
<p>On my dad’s side, my dad and grandpa went to college. (My grandpa got a Liberal Arts degree. I think it was a BA.) I don’t know if his parents went to college. I don’t know if my grandma’s parents went to college.</p>
<p>My mom’s side? I’m the first.</p>
<p>Technically third generation; my dad and grandpa (from my dad’s side) went to college. But I’m the first to go to college in the U.S. and the first female. :)</p>
<p>One of my paternal uncles (engineer) and one of my maternal uncles (teacher) attended college. Of the 8 cousins on my maternal side, I believe 3, including me, finished college. A couple of others dropped out. My dad earned a HS degree in his late 20’s and earned about 60 college credits. My mom had a full tuition scholarship to Cornell but her parents forced her to leave HS so she wouldn’t be able to take it. She did graduate HS. Ironically, they later regretted their decision because she met my dad, who they hated till they died, on a day when she would have been in school had they not made her drop out. My uncles and I all attended CUNY colleges. My cousins went to UCLA because their parents moved out west.</p>
<p>On my H’s side, he is the first to have graduated; his sister started first but never finished. Of 13 cousins, only one other has a degree.</p>
<p>My cousins have gone to college, but they’ve all dropped out. I’m the only one in the family that’s going and I’ve also gone the farthest.</p>
<p>First one. On both sides.</p>
<p>My kids are the 4th generation on my side. My grandfather, born in 1893, was an optometrist. My parents are a retired physician and a librarian. My husband is 1st generation on his side. We are in our 50’s, not many of his 30 cousins have a degree; my 2 cousins do.</p>
<p>I found out today that on my Moms side we had a relative that owned the pharmacy in St Augustine Florida between 1509 and 1522. I dont know if he had a college degree?</p>
<p>I would think that a pharmacist would need some type of formal education??</p>
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A pharmacist in 1509? Probably trained as an apprentice, the primary model of “formal education” at the time. The apprenticeship system is still popular in some European countries today. In Germany, for example, aspiring nurses, kindergarten teachers and accountants do an apprenticeship instead of going to college. (Only about 10% of the German population has a college degree at this point.)</p>
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Are you sure about the dates? According to Wikipedia, the area around [St</a>. Augustine](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida]St”>St. Augustine, Florida - Wikipedia) in Florida was first explored in 1513 and people didn’t settle there until 1565. I don’t see how there could have possibly been a pharmacy there in 1509.</p>
<p>I’m also the first in America. My dad and granddad went to “college” in England, which isn’t really a university, but I don’t think I count as first generation because of it.</p>
<p>b@r!um, you are correct he actually moved the pharmacy from Spain to St Augustine in 1515 he opened it in Spain in 1509.</p>
<p>I am assuming that my mom’s archives are correct.</p>
<p>thanks for the heads up.</p>
<p>I’ll be 2nd generation. On my dad’s side, him and his sister went to college (the only 2 out of 9 kids, including their cousins). On my mom’s side, she’s the only one who went to college. So I’ll be the 4th person to go when i do!!!</p>
<p>My family has a history of dropping out of school! They all dropped out during high school or earlier due to circumstances, so I’m the first one to attend college, actually! Yay.</p>
<p>One of my great-grandmothers (born in 1899) graduated from college. I think she was the first woman in her family to earn a college degree, but I’m pretty sure men in her family had attended college in generations prior to hers.</p>
<p>My sister and I are the first.</p>
<p>Third!
Mom: Northwestern
Grandpa: UPenn
:)</p>
<p>No idea about my great-grandparents, but I’m at least third generation, but only on my mom’s side. My mom and both her parents have gone to college (her mom actually works at MIT, though as a program director or something, not a professor, and her step-dad is a sometimes-professor who prefers writing). My dad was a high-school drop-out, and I don’t think either of his parents went to college.</p>
<p>My father is the only leaf on the paternal branch of my family tree to have gone to college in the last 200 years.</p>
<p>On the maternal side, my grandmother was the first one to go to college. My mother followed suit.</p>
<p>I just got accepted to GTech and UCLA last night, so that makes me part of the 2nd generation college student :)</p>
<p>PS. We’re internationals 
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<p>Third that I know of. I don’t even know my great grandparents names, they may have attended in Norway but I know they never lived in the US.</p>