Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes

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

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

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

All the people who can't get into Michigan go to Michigan State.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

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.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

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.'

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 got accepted at Yale but never went.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

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.

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 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 haven't had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

The whole college process for musical theatre majors is much different than others. The school sort of chooses you! Everyone knows which schools are the top schools and what tier each one is in. So if you get into a good school, you put it on your resume, and you already have a great reputation when you get to New York.

I didn't decide on what college I was going to go to until the day I had to.

Stanford just stood out, not even close to the other schools. I was going to wait, see what else comes into play, but when I got there, I knew I wanted to be there.

Many people don't even know why they're going to college.

I didn't want to go to college. I went to Oregon two days to visit. And they were two sunny days. But me in college was not something I really wanted to do.

People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'