Alvin E. Roth Quotes

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 don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

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.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

It doesn't matter what college you go 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.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

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.

My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'

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.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

Maryland is one of the greatest schools that we have in this country.

Social networks matter greatly, and our class calibrations are often around what college one attended, leading to gruesome institutional divisions between those who attend, say, community colleges and those who attend top-tier universities.

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

I went to Bard College for a year. And then, even though I didn't think I should give my blood to the theater, I did go to N.Y.U., which is where I met Michael McKean.