Mitch Leigh Quotes

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.

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 got accepted at Yale but never went.

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

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I was the first in my family to go to college.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

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 graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

I want that three quad program! That's what's going to set me apart in the U.S.

When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. I've worked my tail off.

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

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

I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.

I was accepted to North Carolina School of the Arts with stitches in my mouth.

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

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.

You want to win when you go to college.

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