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Chivalry Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

"first generation"student?

I saw on a college application site that lists such a question :"Are you a first generation student" on the ethinicity section of its student information query.

Does it mean to ask if the student is the first generation of American immigrant?
  

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Hi, I think it means Did anyone in previous generations of your family attend university? In simpler words, Are you the first person in your family to attend university? It seems to me that this shouldn't be in the ethnicity section.

— Clive

  • Hi, I think it means Did anyone in previous generations of your family attend university?
  • In simpler words, Are you the first person in your family to attend university?
  • It seems to me that this shouldn't be in the ethnicity section.
  • Clive
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Hi,

I think it means Did anyone in previous generations of your family attend university?

In simpler words, Are you the first person in your family to attend university?

It seems to me that this shouldn't be in the ethnici
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CliveHi, I think it means Did anyone in previous generations of your family attend university?In simpler words, Are you the first person in your family to attend university? It seems to me that this shouldn't be in the ethnicity section. Clive
oops sorry for the confusion, it's just that both of the questions that precede and follow it are about nationality an
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As well-intentioned as the question may be [masking an effort at "affirmative action"] I think it still carries a tinge of prejudice.
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PhilipAs well-intentioned as the question may be [masking an effort at "affirmative action"] I think it still carries a tinge of prejudice.
Now the question's back on the table,

is it asking about the which generation of immigrant of the applicant?

It really sounds like that, and I agree with you for the well-intended yet still prejudicial po
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chivalry
PhilipAs well-intentioned as the question may be [masking an effort at "affirmative action"] I think it still carries a tinge of prejudice.
Now the question's back on the table,is it asking about the which generation of immigrant of the applicant?It really sounds like that, and I agree with you for the well-intended yet still p
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