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Your parents' education
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so you're basically the antichrist, then.
pretty much. i refuse to embrace my destiny.
My parents came from Greece when they were teenagers. My father went straight into the restaurant business and my mother finished high school and became a cosmotoligist....My parents may not have the highest education available but they were both successful in their perspective fields. I think they just want to know for statistical value of matriculants...I hope 
My mom went to a technical high school for business and went to work for a law firm for 30 years. My dad finished his associate's and took a job as a police officer. Then, 20 years later, he got his bachelor's and went to law school. Now, he's an immigration lawyer in Northern Cuba (Miami).
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Don't feel too bad. Neither of my parents made it to high school. But you'd be surprised at how much they love to learn.
My mom comes from an affluent family with MANY doctors, lawyers and engineers and generations of college grads.
My dad was from a small farming town (population: 200) who was the first to go to college from his family and didn't stop until he had his MD.
Most of you probably don't care, but I am glad (for selfish reasons) that the social disparity didn't keep them apart.
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sle3pyguii
Father - BS in some kind of Engineering
Mother - I think BFA in Art.
Mother - I think BFA in Art.
Where's the multiple degree option?
Phail
Phail
Mother: B.A in Hotel Management
Father: High School
Father: High School
mom: BA in recreation
dad: high school diploma
It's worth noting that our parents generation did not need to go to college to get secure, well-paying jobs.
dad: high school diploma
It's worth noting that our parents generation did not need to go to college to get secure, well-paying jobs.
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Mother: MA in History, MS in Physics
Father: BA
Father: BA
Mom: High school
Dad: MS in Electrical Engineering
Dad: MS in Electrical Engineering
First generation college student here (parents are high school graduates).
Mom: little bit of college-school secretaty
Dad: high school grad-GM factory worker
(3 siblings-only one went to college-teacher)
Dad: high school grad-GM factory worker
(3 siblings-only one went to college-teacher)
Mom - counselor with master's in psychology
Dad - psychologist with PhD
Dad - psychologist with PhD
Mother: MFA costume design
Father: MFA set design, MBA non-prophet management
...they have no idea where I came from...
Father: MFA set design, MBA non-prophet management
...they have no idea where I came from...
highest completed..
to answer my own poll, my mother has an ASN (associates of science in nursing) and my dad has a high school diploma.
Mom: Bachelor's in Business Administration (she went to college when I did)
Dad: Master's in Math (he's retired but did computer stuff for his whole career. I couldn't tell you what exactly. Anyways, he's so old that they didn't have computer science yet and he had to do math. think back to the days of the huge roomsize computers. haha)
Dad: Master's in Math (he's retired but did computer stuff for his whole career. I couldn't tell you what exactly. Anyways, he's so old that they didn't have computer science yet and he had to do math. think back to the days of the huge roomsize computers. haha)
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hey, my situation is exactly the same as yours!
it's funny how ohio state asks for your grandparents level of education - finally, a chance for me to look disadvantaged, since none of them completed grade school.
don't feel bad about that at all! Look at you! you're blazing a new trail for your family. My parents both have college degrees (BA in Education and BS in Bio) but hardly anyone else has finished high school, let alone gone to college in my whole family (woo second generation americans!)
When i decided to go to an Ivy league undergrad and now apply to med school my dad calls me "an astronaut" because for my family it's like they're blasting off into space--nobody's been there before.
be proud of it!~
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Blade28
Both parents have a Ph.D.
Mom = MA in English, worked in IT
Dad = Ph.D. in Economics
Dad = Ph.D. in Economics
Mom's a high school bio teacher (masters in molecular bio), Dad's an aerospace engineer (two masters, one in aerospace and the other in mechanical)
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Mama- high school grad
Pops- barely high school grad (took him 7 years!!)
I am also a first generation college grad! I think it says a lot for those of us that have accomplished so much already, without having necessarily all the perks that the kids of doctors and what not have had! I am not ashamed of this at all, it gives me an appreciation for what I have.
Pops- barely high school grad (took him 7 years!!)
I am also a first generation college grad! I think it says a lot for those of us that have accomplished so much already, without having necessarily all the perks that the kids of doctors and what not have had! I am not ashamed of this at all, it gives me an appreciation for what I have.
Both parents high school degrees. ME*= first generation college student in my house. ( no pressure thats what they said ehe)
Mom: BA Business Adminstration Information Systems
Dad: High school
that must be weird having your dad/mom a PhD..I am kind of used to be smarter than my parents, haha.
Dad: High school
that must be weird having your dad/mom a PhD..I am kind of used to be smarter than my parents, haha.
Both parents graduated high school only. I am also going to be the first of my siblings to graduate with a Bachelor's Degree (I am the fourth of eight children).
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45408
mom has her bachelor's in nursing
dad was a theater major, but never actually graduated, despite being 1-2 classes short
he started his own business anyways
dad was a theater major, but never actually graduated, despite being 1-2 classes short
he started his own business anyways
Will be first generation college graduate.
Mom....graduated HS...worked in a bank for 30 years.
Dad....a little bit of accounting but dropped out of college. Took over the family business.
Me: I got my associates...but still working for my BS.
Mom....graduated HS...worked in a bank for 30 years.
Dad....a little bit of accounting but dropped out of college. Took over the family business.
Me: I got my associates...but still working for my BS.
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