Punit Renjen Quotes

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

Admission to the National Academy is highly competitive and selective.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

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

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

People who go to Oxford and Cambridge are often unproductive. What am I saying? This is nonsense. No, sometimes they get so competitive that, unless they're going to be Pulitzer prize-winning, they can't get off their backside.

Georgetown is still Georgetown. They have got a tremendous name and recognition. They are in a great area and have a great school.

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

With a rich history, a world-class interdisciplinary program, and a vibrant student experience, I can't think of a better location to continue my own lifelong learning than the University of Chicago.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

I didn't want to go to any school but Duke: the best of the best.

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

Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.

You have to be great to get Doyle's seal of approval.