Yara Shahidi Quotes

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

I'd love to study in the U.S. I visited Vanderbilt in Nashville, and I've been told to check out Ole Miss. There are so many schools that I don't really know where to start. But I do love the U.S. and have met so many supportive and enthusiastic people here while I've been on tour. I could definitely live here!

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.

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university.

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

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.

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

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.'

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

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

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

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 never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

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.