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I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.
Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet to be aware of the fact, as we are, that institutions of higher learning ... have been given conceded preferences to the children of alumni.
A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it. I'll never get back in again." And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.
I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person ... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
No matter the outcome, having completed a series of MBA applications in a serious, thoughtful way is a real achievement.
I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.
College: A fountain of knowledge where all go to drink.
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.
Salish Kootenai College
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
You're supposed to be Easterns' ladies man. I'm not getting the full freshman experience they promised in the brochure.
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.
Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.
Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major, they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest school you can. You don't.
What is your collective GPA for this year?"
"Not as high as I'd like it to be."
Freud steepled his fingers in front of his mouth. "What about your parents?"
"I don't know. They haven't been in school for a while.
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.
I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.
Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast. College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment as long as possible.
One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.
To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.
To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.
Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle.
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8
I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.
My regular school didn't know what to do with me!
I applied to a few conservatories. I was sure that I wouldn't get in, and I didn't plan to go to N.Y. But then I got into Juilliard.
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
We are the transition from one education to the other.
The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need you to take seriously the calling that is yours by virtue of going to college.
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.
For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons ...
The enormous sense of the potentiality for success and failure, and the prospect of triumphs and tragedies, hoover over collegiate students jubilant and anguish filled, animated actuality.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
just graduated from Tufts - Laine
Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.
More depended on the student than on the school.
As a community college professor for over twenty years, I've seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show up. They work hard. They believe anything is possible.
You're not going to campus. You're going out to get drunk and play with other ladies' boobies. - Kye
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
And be very careful what friends you make. You never know what sort of creatures are in them colleges. Outwardly they may be as whited sepulchers and inwardly as ravening wolves, that's what.
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.
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In our relentless pursuit of the almighty A and the perfect GPA, something got lost - learning. Grades became the be-all and end-all, the goal itself, not an indicator of achieving the goal of learning. Grades have become the commodity, the badge of success and smarts, the ticket to college.
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "
Not interested. I didn't try very hard. I went to boarding school on a sports' scholarship after I bowled a cricket ball into my old headmaster's leg. He said, 'Christ, that was accurate,' and got it for me. But I walked out at 16.
Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.
Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
This is insanity!"
"No, this is scholarship!
As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.
Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter
At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.
You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
Sometimes i feel that i am unlucky due to couldn't enroll in the Harvard Business School but at least by this encouragement that i enrolled in MBA in Human resource management program whereas i grown as a leader and build the team in the field of HRM through motivation.
This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
I frowned, "What's that?"
"Homework.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Masters no longer needed any
So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enough to get into Matriarchal State University but not quite good enough for St. Mary's College of the Blessed Womb Warriors.
Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
Now I see a few campuses that are honest
am not a well-schooled woman. Instead, I have learned my lessons from experience, mistakes, and the heat of battle. If ever there was a shining alumnus from the school of hard knocks, it is I. My diploma can be found, printed in black and blue, at points of varying interest from head to toe.
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.
Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!
Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.