Rick Perry Quotes

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

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

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

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

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.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it's no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.

Between my freshman and senior years of high school in the late '90s, my father spent his evenings, weekends and vacations drilling my best friend and me for our SATs.

I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school.

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.

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

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.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

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.

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.