Jorge Paulo Lemann Quotes

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

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.

All of the great big men went to college at least two or three years. I think it's a big factor. I don't know if it will always work, but I think it's the best choice.

I was just a young kid from Parma, Ohio, and I went to college at Miami University of Ohio.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after scoring 500 on the SAT. I was 23 years old, and they put me in remedial. I was the happiest remedial person on earth.

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

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

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

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.

My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

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.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

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.

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

I was the first in my family to go to college.

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

I want to see kids go to college more.

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

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'