title: Angular populate input fields
body: <p>I have a object that gets populated via a restful API in my root scope and then in my child scope I'm trying to populate some input fields.</p>
  
  <p>child controller</p>
  
  <pre><code>$scope.profileForm = $scope.$parent.student;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this works and I can </p>
  
  <pre><code>console.log($scope.profileForm.FirstName);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the input on my page does not populate?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input ng-model="profileForm.FirstName" type="text" class="form-control form-control-first" id="first-name-input" placeholder="FIRSTNAME" required /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be great :)</p>