Eliot Schrefer Quotes

I had very little going for me as a kid except for the fact that I had demanding parents and was very good at filling out bubbles on standardized tests. I went to the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University because I did well on the SAT. I went to Exeter because I did well on the SAT.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.

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

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

I went to school here at the University of San Carlos for my primary and high school. I was valedictorian in grade school, and I was number one in high school, and because of that, I received free tuition in school. I thank the school for that.

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.

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'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

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.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had double firsts from Oxford or Cambridge, they were all bright as new pins.

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

Don't encourage 8th-, 9th- and 10th-graders to forgo education just to go to the G League.

I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.

The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.

I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.

One of my best friends got recruited to go to Miami, and another one went to South Florida. You're talking about two big schools in Florida, and I had to go all the way up to Buffalo. I was like, 'OK, I have to put in some more work.' That's just the way it has been ever since.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

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

I was a physics topper in my school and used to encourage my juniors.