College Prep Quotes

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

I had been tracked from grades 1 through 12 in an accelerated program in the public school system in Memphis and had done well in math and science classes. When I was getting ready for college, my guidance counselors suggested I look into engineering.

I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.

I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.

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.

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

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.

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

If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

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.

College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work.

Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.

I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show.

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 started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

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

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.

I want that three quad program! That's what's going to set me apart in the U.S.

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.

The elite private tutor is typically ivy-educated and falls into one of two categories - a twenty-something pursuing an artistic career on the side, or someone older who has made a career out of college-prep. They are presentable, well-spoken, and are treated by doormen as guests more than as employees.

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.