College Success Quotes

Fewer than 13 percent of high school students will continue to study math and science in college—usually the most well-prepared and persistent students who often come from families where encouragement and enrichment is fundamental

Both my children have degrees from UCLA.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

My dream school was USC. So I was like, alright, I'm going to apply to USC, and If I don't get in - I'm dropping out of school, and I'm pursuing music. So I applied, and I got in. I was like alright, I'm at the number one communications school in the country, and that was my major.

I don't come from a lot, so Disney gave me the opportunity to go to college, which is great. My brother and I are some of the first in our family to ever do that.

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

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

I know that college is a big step from high school. So I wanted to make sure I was ready for it.

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

I think every person who gets a football scholarship thinks the potential for great success in college - and maybe even a career in the NFL - is possible.

I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.

You want to win when you go to college.

Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.

I'm very proud of the fact I went to Harvard and I loved my four years there.

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

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

This idea that some kids have now in some communities that if they haven't filled out their college resumes by the time they're 12, they are going to fail in life, it's a lot of stress on kids.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.