First Gen College Student - or not?

MaryGJ
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 04:15:12 +0000

Each school defines the term differently. At some colleges, your parents can have associates degrees in decent paying health fields (an MRI tech, for example)…but they still count their kids as first generation because the parents have no bachelor’s.

At some colleges, if your parents took one class of basket weaving at community college…you’re not first generation because your parents did, in fact, set foot in “college”.

Some colleges will count being licensed in a trade, some won’t. It’s pretty arbitrary.