Urgent Questions. THANK YOU!

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<p>Urgent Questions. Thank you! </p>

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<p>I’m handing in my applications soon and I would like someone to help me answer the following questions about common app.

  1. In the family section - siblings, I don’t know what to put for ‘degree earned/expected’. One of my siblings is still grade 7, and two are in elementary school (2nd grade, 4th grade). For the one in grade 7, should I put ‘High School’? What about for the other two? How about ‘Dates of Attendance’? Btws, for all of them, nothing should go in ‘College’, yeah?</p>

<li><p>Do colleges usually print out forms if you submit them online? because when I clicked ‘preview’, I saw that the formatting was pretty bad (AP and SAT II exam names were cut and other minor issues…)</p></li>
<li><p>I saw posts on cc about ‘first generation college’, ‘first generation us college’ and so on when they list out their credentials after getting in colleges. Where you do indicate such things? In the resume? I can’t see that anywhere on the common app form. What exactly does ‘first generation us college’ mean? does that mean that no one in my entire family (includes grandparents) attended a us college ever?</p></li>
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<p>Thank you so much to anyone who can reply me! I’ll make sure that I help you next time if you have questions posted on cc! =)</p>

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<li>I don't think you need to put anything in "degree expected" part for any of your sibs.</li>
<li>It is their problem. I am sure they can solve it.</li>
<li>"First generation US college" is meaningless, and no one cares about it. If your parents attended a university or college in or out of USA, you are NOT a first generation college student. Some schools give a boost to students who are first in their families to attend college, because these students are at disadvantage compared to those coming from highly educated families (again, it does not matter if the parents got their degrees in the US or abroad). Usually there is some place on the supplement where you can mark if you are 1st gen student - I am not sure if Stanford has that or not.</li>
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