James Worthy Quotes

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.

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

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

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

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

You want to win when you go to college.

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

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'