Tatyana Ali Quotes

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

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

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

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.

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions process worked in the United States or the importance of standardized tests.

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.

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

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

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

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.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

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.

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.

Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.

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

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

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

People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody's mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

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