Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

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.

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

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

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.

Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.

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 feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

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

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

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'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.

Every year it is more difficult to get into the top four.

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

Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university.