Tim Finchem Quotes

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

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

Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

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

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

I was born knowing I had to go to college.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

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.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

I'm proud of doing well at school and if there'd been any money I would have gone to college.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

You want to win when you go to college.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

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

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

Access to a college degree is critical.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.