Karen O Quotes

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

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

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

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.

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

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

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.

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

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.

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

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

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.

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

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

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

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 had this really intense resolve. I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?' And they would say, 'You have to get an application. You have to get letters of recommendation.' It was terrifying. I had no idea what I was doing.

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.

I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?' And they would say, 'You have to get an application. You have to get letters of recommendation.' It was terrifying. I had no idea what I was doing.

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

You want to win when you go to college.

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