Amity Shlaes Quotes

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

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

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

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

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

Actors never discuss future plans.

One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.