Anand Giridharadas Quotes

Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don't know anyone that has had that at the University of Michigan, which tells you that I was a stand up student.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

I'm a Stanford kid through and through.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.