Susan Estrich Quotes

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions process worked in the United States or the importance of standardized tests.

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

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

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 feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

I didn't even know about MIT until two weeks before I applied.

I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.

Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

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 don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

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

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

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

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.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

It doesn't matter what college you go to.

In spite of the fact of my dad telling me that if I did well, I could go to the military, I said, 'No, I want to go to college.'