Shia LaBeouf Quotes

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

All the people who can't get into Michigan go to Michigan State.

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.

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

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Wake Forest came knocking on the door, and I accepted that offer. It changed my life completely.

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.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

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 don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.

My college options were nil.

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

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.

I made three visits during my senior year of high school to Duke, UNC, and Virginia. If I hadn't gone to Duke, I would have went to Carolina, just like a lot of Carolina players who, had they not gone there, would have went to Duke.

A lot of Ivy League schools have presidents who are very politically active. And I don't think it has an impact on whether a student chooses a school or a donor gives to a school.