Yuta Watanabe Quotes

I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

My college options were nil.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Access to a college degree is critical.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

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

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.

Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

One of my best friends got recruited to go to Miami, and another one went to South Florida. You're talking about two big schools in Florida, and I had to go all the way up to Buffalo. I was like, 'OK, I have to put in some more work.' That's just the way it has been ever since.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'

I knew I had to get my grades so that I could focus on football.