Frederick Reines Quotes

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I haven't had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

I didn't decide on what college I was going to go to until the day I had to.

Stanford just stood out, not even close to the other schools. I was going to wait, see what else comes into play, but when I got there, I knew I wanted to be there.

People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody's mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

I fell in love with Clemson when I took a visit there.

USC has been really involved with trying to recruit me, from my experience going out there.

Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

If I did want to go back to school, I'd want to go to Loyola Marymount University over in, I believe, Morina, or Pepperdine. Those are just beautiful campuses. I know that's probably not the right reason to go school. The campuses are just stunning.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

I didn't even know about MIT until two weeks before I applied.

I made three visits during my senior year of high school to Duke, UNC, and Virginia. If I hadn't gone to Duke, I would have went to Carolina, just like a lot of Carolina players who, had they not gone there, would have went to Duke.

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions process worked in the United States or the importance of standardized tests.

I didn't want to go to college. I went to Oregon two days to visit. And they were two sunny days. But me in college was not something I really wanted to do.