Parent is foreign graduate, am I a first gen student?

Linathefish
Sun, 15 Oct 2017 19:01:11 +0000

Hi all,
I’m the daughter of a single parent, my mom, who went to medical school in Poland. They have a weird system there where you can go to 6 year medical school directly following high school, so my mom never earned a bachelor’s degree or any other degree besides an MD as a result. I’m applying to JHU, and one of their questions is regarding whether or not I am a first gen student:

"Are you a first generation college student?

We define students as “first generation” if neither parent graduated with a bachelor’s degree from a four-year college."

It’s a yes/no question and technically my mother never got a BA from a four year college… but I have a doctor for a mother?

I don’t know. Help?