Pete Buttigieg Quotes

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

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

You want to win when you go to college.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

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.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

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

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.

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.

One of my best friends got recruited to go to Miami, and another one went to South Florida. You're talking about two big schools in Florida, and I had to go all the way up to Buffalo. I was like, 'OK, I have to put in some more work.' That's just the way it has been ever since.

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

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions process worked in the United States or the importance of standardized tests.

I was accepted to North Carolina School of the Arts with stitches in my mouth.

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

I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.