Academic Merit Quotes

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

The law faculty see no reason why any young woman who in respect to character and acquirements fulfilled the Conditions applicable to male students, and who chose to attend the law lectures in good faith for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the laws of her Country, should be denied that privilege.

I went to nine different universities and never paid a nickle of my own money. My wife got many scholarships. We are children of the United States.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

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 think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

We will cover the tuition costs of any Rhode Islander who is academically qualified, and in financial need.

Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.

I would certainly look at a proposal for tuition-free community college for two years if the students kept a certain high grade-point average.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

I was a pretty unsavvy applicant, and I am grateful that the dean of admissions at Princeton chose to take a chance on a girl from an average public high school in southern Virginia.

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

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