Junot Diaz Quotes

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I'm very proud of the fact I went to Harvard and I loved my four years there.

Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

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.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

The FBI is full of Fordham graduates keeping tabs on Harvard Men in the State Department.

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

I went to Harvard College, grew up in Boston, and went to high school in Boston.

I went to Yale for undergrad.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

If your son graduates from Harvard, people will regard him as smart and highly qualified for the rest his life and give him access to opportunities. He'll be able to get any job he wants.