Chris Benz Quotes

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

I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

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

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

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.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

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

Maybe you think, 'I'm not college material.' Maybe you worry that you don't have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

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

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after scoring 500 on the SAT. I was 23 years old, and they put me in remedial. I was the happiest remedial person on earth.

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.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

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

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

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.'

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

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