(taken from L.)

This is a meme about privilege. The people who started the study assumed (and rightfully, I guess) that most people experiencing privilege don’t even see it (isn’t that what privilege is about? assuming that it is normal? anyway.). It’s about privilege leading to higher education.
Your task is to look at your life at 18 and bold the stuff that applies to you (= your privilege) in the following list.

If your father went to college before you started.
If your father finished college before you started.
If your mother went to college before you started.
If your mother finished college before you started.
If you have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
If your family was the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
If you had a computer at home when you were growing up.
If you had your own computer at home when you were growing up.
If you had more than 50 books at home when you were growing up.
If you had more than 500 books at home when you were growing up.
If you were read children’s books by a parent when you were growing up.
If you ever had lessons of any kind as a child or a teen.
If you had more than two kinds of lessons as a child or a teen.
If the people in the media who dress and talk like you were portrayed positively.
If you had a credit card with your name on it before college.

If you had or will have less than $5000 in student loans when you graduate.
If you had or will have no student loans when you graduate.
[Since I most probably won’t be graduating, I don’t know if I can really answer these questions.]

If you went to a private high school.
If you went to summer camp.
If you had a private tutor.
(US students only) If you have been to Europe more than once as a child or teen.
(International question) If you have been to the US more than once as a child or teen.
If your family vacations involved staying at hotels rather than KOA or at relatives homes.
If all of your clothing has been new.
If your parents gave you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them.
If there was original art in your house as a child or teen.
If you had a phone in your room.
If your parent owned their own house or apartment when you were a child or teen.
If you had your own room as a child or teen.
If you participated in an SAT/ACT prep course. [No SATs in Austria.]
If you had your own cell phone in High School.
If you had your own TV as a child or teen.
If you opened a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College.
If you have ever flown anywhere on a commercial airline.
If you ever went on a cruise with your family.
If your parents took you to museums and art galleries as a child or teen.
If you were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family.

Now count. (27 -2)