Roy Romer Quotes

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.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

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

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don't know anyone that has had that at the University of Michigan, which tells you that I was a stand up student.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

I was a member of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan, but I was also on the Dean's List there. I took pride in my education.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.

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 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.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been admitted to Rice University, I found that I enjoyed the courses and the elation of success and graduated with honors in physics. I did a senior thesis with C.F. Squire, building a regulator for a magnet for use in low-temperature physics.

Today, and here for the first time in America, a Catholic college for the education of young ladies bestows the bachelor's degree...

When they [students] select a college which has published its requirements, they elect to do what it prescribes for the attainment of a degree – and, perchance, an education.

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to her that I was to go to a drama college.