<p>Does having teachers for parents affect college acceptance? How about being the first generation to attend college?</p>
<p>First gen (parents do NOT have ANY education beyond HS) can be a tip factor. Having parents who are teachers has no effect on college admissions.</p>
<p>unless your parent is a professor at the school you are applying to.</p>
<p>As a general rule, there is no advantage. What advantage there might be comes from the fact that they may know the process better than say an average person. Hence, they may be better able to guide their kids through the process.</p>
<p>I agree with you hikids, I think that having a parent that is a teacher as a fact is not going to get you into any college. I also agree with the fact that having a parent that is a teacher is going to be of great help, since imagine the help they can provide you in understanding and learning about many subjects. Refering back to Roddy01, I believe you should ask your mom or dad(the one who's a teacher) to try and prepare you for what is comming. If you do this with time, you will be really well prepared for entering college.</p>
<p>It depends on the school. Some schools have so many first generation applicants that it doesn't make a bit of difference. Some schools don't even bother to note it. For some schools it is of great importance.</p>
<p>Parents are an important factor in their children's development and as a result are often the reason some kids are better prepared for college than other. Having the right parents and homelife, is one of the most important things in a kid's life, not just for college reasons. Of course, having teachers as parents can be beneficial, but mean spirited teachers for parents is not going to be helpful to the kids. Alone it is not a big factor. Combined with other attributes, it can be most helpful, especially if they are good teachers.</p>
<p>"First generation" is listed on the Common Data Set for colleges under admission criteria. So you can look at the data for individual colleges to see how strongly they consider first generation. </p>
<p>One of those college admissions advice books (I've forgotten which one) has a discussion about how what you write down for your parents' occupation on the college application affects how the admission officers view your application. The more extreme example is that both your parents are doctors then they will expect you to have high SAT scores and lots of opportunities. I am guessing that writing down teacher or elementary school teacher (if that is the case) would have an effect in the middle of being good but not so good that it sets up unrealistic expectations about you. I'm not really convinced that the admissions officers scrutinize each word on the college application. But it can't hurt to pay attention to these details on your applicatons.</p>
<p>the secretary for guidance's daughter got a lot of local scholarships. I am not saying there was favoritism or that she didn't deserve what she got, but having a mother in here seemed to benefit her.
She was also really helpful to our family and we also were pleased with the results ( and feel like she went above and beyond )</p>
<p>don't hate</p>
<p>Perhaps the secy of the GC's D got a lot of scholarships because she was proactive and applied for them when they came out. I think the benefit came from the Secy knowing what scholarships were coming down, the history regarding the number of students who actually care enough to apply, when the deadlines are due and the importance of not procrastinating. </p>
<p>It is mot likely possible that the GC Secy also told her D, "hey there was an interesting scholarship oppty, that came by my desk today, perhaps you should see Ms. Smith or Mr. Jones to talk about it".</p>
<p>Don't hate ?
Was that remark aimed a me ?
Who said I hate, or resent anything ? The scholarships she got were part of a community scholarship packet that had about 200 awards, Applying meant you were in the running for any of them, with a few exceptions and restrictions ( i.e. ethnicity, course of study, parent's various affiliations )</p>
<p>Like I said, I was pleased with the help and assistance she gave to us, not bitter.</p>