Max Aaron Quotes

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

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.

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 was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.

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

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.

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.

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.

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.'

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.

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.

I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

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

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

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

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

You want to win when you go to college.

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

I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'

It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.