The subject matter of this paper are correlation and influence of parents socioeconomic status on students educational aspirations. In the central interest are freshman college students, their educational aspirations and both students lifestyle and parents lifestyle including reflection of parental socioeconomic status. The characteristics of the socioeconomic status examined in this paper are the level of education of the parents, household income, the way of spending free time, the number of books and reading activities. The goal was to determine the extent to which children would follow in their parents “footsteps”. Will the parents impose their wishes and ideas regarding the child's education and will this be seen through the results obtained. The paper establishes the existence of latent socio-economic influence in terms of the education level both fathers and mothers. A high level of education also meant a positive attitude towards university obligations and desires in continuing education. The results showed that the division into male-female occupations still prevails among parents, as evidenced by the large percentage of fathers who were educated in technical occupations, while mothers were mostly educated in the social sciences and humanities. There was a correlation of the number of books in the home library with the total number of books students read. The conclusion is that the number of books read is not related to the parent’s reading habit. However, according to the answers given by the respondents, there is no imposed and forced socio-economic influence of parents on the child, in terms of imposed expectations.