What was your college experience like? Being a college student is already a challenge within itself, but being a first generation college student makes it a little more challenging. Were you a first generation college student? If so think of the difficulties you faced; if not think of the advantages you had. The subject of first generation college students is extremely diverse because of the different elements it consist of. There are those who are regular first generation college students, but then you have those who are first generation college students with immigrant parents; who faces more challenges out of these groups? First generation college students with immigrant parents are faced with more challenges due to their unexperienced background,
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Studies have shown that just about 50% of first generation college students’ parents have had a high school education or received a lower education than that (Trombley). First generation college students have a harder time throughout their years in school compared to non-first generation college students as showed in a study. Michael Stebleton and Krista Soria conducted a study examining about 60,000 students from six different colleges to analyze the difference between first generation and non-first generation college students. They studied their academics along with their skills and feelings of coping with different situations. The study found that “first generation students weren’t as academically prepared as others” (Stebleton), meaning that compared to others in college they weren’t reaching the same grades. Not being academically prepared is a setback to their beginning stages in college and education in general. They found that their high school test grades compared to other high schools grades showed a big differences. Even their grades in college could’ve been a bit better. Not only were they not academically prepared but they also found that a lot of students have low levels of academic preparation. Low levels of academic preparation meaning not …show more content…
Non-first generation college students are those whose parents/other family member have attended college and received a degree for their career field. When it comes to their academics they have to put in more time than an average college student. Why? Because, as stated before they’re not academically prepared in the basic subjects such as math, English and science. Which is a setback. They try and spend as much time as they can studying, doing work in the library and preparing, but because most students do not live on campus it’s harder for them to get things done once they leave campus. Students who live on campus have easy access to internet, wifi and a computer. Students who don’t live on campus go home with the idea and mindset of getting things done but when they get home they become distracted by their family members. In a household with immigrant parents it is like you’re depended on to get anything they ask of you done right away, even when they know you have a load of school work to get done for the next day (Kim). In reality although you’re in a house full of people, you’re alone because no one there understands how stressful college can be and how much overload of school work can get. There are days where students pull all nighters just to
Studies have shown that just about 50% of first generation college students’ parents have had a high school education or received a lower education than that (Trombley). First generation college students have a harder time throughout their years in school compared to non-first generation college students as showed in a study. Michael Stebleton and Krista Soria conducted a study examining about 60,000 students from six different colleges to analyze the difference between first generation and non-first generation college students. They studied their academics along with their skills and feelings of coping with different situations. The study found that “first generation students weren’t as academically prepared as others” (Stebleton), meaning that compared to others in college they weren’t reaching the same grades. Not being academically prepared is a setback to their beginning stages in college and education in general. They found that their high school test grades compared to other high schools grades showed a big differences. Even their grades in college could’ve been a bit better. Not only were they not academically prepared but they also found that a lot of students have low levels of academic preparation. Low levels of academic preparation meaning not …show more content…
Non-first generation college students are those whose parents/other family member have attended college and received a degree for their career field. When it comes to their academics they have to put in more time than an average college student. Why? Because, as stated before they’re not academically prepared in the basic subjects such as math, English and science. Which is a setback. They try and spend as much time as they can studying, doing work in the library and preparing, but because most students do not live on campus it’s harder for them to get things done once they leave campus. Students who live on campus have easy access to internet, wifi and a computer. Students who don’t live on campus go home with the idea and mindset of getting things done but when they get home they become distracted by their family members. In a household with immigrant parents it is like you’re depended on to get anything they ask of you done right away, even when they know you have a load of school work to get done for the next day (Kim). In reality although you’re in a house full of people, you’re alone because no one there understands how stressful college can be and how much overload of school work can get. There are days where students pull all nighters just to