College Application Quotes

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

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.

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.

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.

I actually didn't know anything about Stanford. It was the only school I really did a lot of research on.

I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.

USC has been really involved with trying to recruit me, from my experience going out there.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.

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

I tried to get into college, but I think I'm going to wait a little bit for that because I'm just so busy.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

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.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

I fell in love with Clemson when I took a visit there.

My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.

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

My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.

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

I want that three quad program! That's what's going to set me apart in the U.S.