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This is anecdotal so take it with a huge grain of salt. Being first generation American born, most of my friends were also first-gen basically from all over the world. Our parents had high expectations of us academically. But not just in terms of going to college, but usually with focus on a degree with a directly obvious career path. So we all became doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, engineers, accountants. I think it's because they probably worked twice as hard for half our opportunity. And even though we all kind of came from humble backgrounds, it's not like students loans aren't an obvious vehicle to reach those white collar careers.

Meanwhile, a lot of the native friends I had in college, especially from a more well-off background, majored in things like History with no real career plans or aspirations. I'm not saying that's necessarily bad, but a guy I knew spent 40k to get a psychology degree to just end up working at his dad's company. In fact, most of my peers during my psych undergrad had absolutely no plan. No grad school, which is a requirement to work in that field, so ending terminally on a B.A or B.S. in psych just seemed short-sighted.
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