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Old 02-24-2012, 03:43 AM   #1
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How many generations of your family have attended college?

How many generations of your family have attended college?
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Old 02-24-2012, 04:24 AM   #2
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i'm the first...
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Old 02-24-2012, 06:16 AM   #3
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I'm the second generation to.
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Old 02-24-2012, 09:19 AM   #4
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First in America. My grandmother may have gone to college in England but no one is sure.
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Old 02-24-2012, 01:07 PM   #5
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My grandmother went to college to be a nurse. I don't know how things worked 100+ years ago when my family was wealthy, but now most of them go into careers that don't require university.

Both my parents have advanced degrees, and my cousins have plans to/are attending college.
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Old 02-24-2012, 04:28 PM   #6
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Depending on how you count it I'm the second or third. I believe my grandma on my dad's side either start or thought about college but she never finished.
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Old 02-24-2012, 04:30 PM   #7
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My Granny studied French.

But hers was the first middle class generation, I'm sure my great-grandparents didn't go.
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Old 02-24-2012, 04:35 PM   #8
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I'm the second generation.
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Old 02-24-2012, 04:53 PM   #9
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I'll be the fourth, I think.
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Old 02-24-2012, 04:57 PM   #10
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None. I'm the first.
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Old 02-24-2012, 07:21 PM   #11
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My grandparents for sure did, at least three of the four.. so my daughter will be 4th generation.
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Old 02-24-2012, 07:26 PM   #12
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1st generation
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Old 02-24-2012, 07:37 PM   #13
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I believe me and my sister are the second gen.
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Old 02-24-2012, 07:51 PM   #14
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1, my mother was the first to go to college.
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Old 02-24-2012, 08:07 PM   #15
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Two before me, I know one grandpa went to Birmingham Southern then to Emory law, then the other went somewhere so he could become an FBI agent (and a teacher), and my grandmother's attending Georgia State at the moment. So I'm the third generation. Strange, I figured my family would be less educated than most CC families. =P

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