Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over.

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

My second choice would've been Carolina. And when I told my mother I was going to Duke and not Carolina, she just cried, and that made my decision process a little harder. But I still went with what felt right, and it ended up working out well for me.

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

I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.

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 went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

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

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.

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

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.

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.

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

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

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

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'

So I decided on science when I was in college.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

After moving to California, I decided to go back to school and get an education on various aspects of the entertainment industry.

On signing day, my mom brought me the national letter of intent to Arkansas. I should feel like I'm making the right decision. You get that many people telling you that. I had been dreaming about it. I signed 'No' where I was supposed to sign my name and put an exclamation point.

I had fallen in love with Cherry as a junior in high school. When I discovered she was going to go to Auburn, I was vacillating between Alabama and Kentucky because of Babe. I eliminated Kentucky because I wanted to be as close to Auburn as I could, and Tuscaloosa is a lot closer than Lexington is.

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

I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.