International Adoptees

Paying for College
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<p>I'm not sure this is exactly the right forum, but it's a good place to begin :-)</p>

<p>This relates to Questbridge as well as to other scholarship opportunities and college applications.</p>

<p>Should answers to questions, for example "first generation to attend college" be answered as they pertain biologically or as pertains to adoptive family? Would the answer to this question perhaps depend on age the child was adopted? </p>

<p>Do you think that the country of birth has any particular impact on scholarship/application questions/answers? For example... adoption from a 3rd world country as compared to a 1st world country.</p>

<p>How does a child take advantage of the opportunity to put their life in context without necessarily taking up an essay to say "I was adopted"?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I think the student is stuck with at least making a note about the adoption experience in the “other information” section.</p>

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<p>The first gen to attend college is supposed to reflect the home environment that the child was raised in…so typically the adoptive parents. The idea is that if a child is raised in a home where at least one parent went to college, then the child was exposed to a “higher level” environment.</p>

<p>Of course, a child that was adopted at - say age 16 - wouldn’t have the same exposure as the child who was adopted at age 7. Obviously, a child adopted at age 7 by educated parents wouldn’t really be a “first gen” child. </p>

<p>How old was the child when adopted?</p>