First-generation students
VCU is a place where first-gens fly.
How do you know if you’re a first-generation student? Any student who had neither parents nor guardians complete a four-year degree is a “first-gen.” Even if you have siblings who are in college or who got a degree, you’re part of the same generation, so you’re all first-generation.
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Over 1/3 Of VCU’s undergraduate students will be the first in their family to graduate college
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