Yvonne Orji Quotes

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

You want to win when you go to college.

I was just a young kid from Parma, Ohio, and I went to college at Miami University of Ohio.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

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

In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after scoring 500 on the SAT. I was 23 years old, and they put me in remedial. I was the happiest remedial person on earth.

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 weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.