Acceptance Quote by Edith Bowman

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

— Rory Bremner

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

— Terry Bradshaw

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

— Lolly Adefope

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final…

— Nina Bawden

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that…

— Peter Higgs

Going to Edinburgh when I was at university and seeing people who were my age just getting up and doing what they wanted to…

— Lolly Adefope

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

— Reggie Lee

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm…

— Frederick Reines

I was only in Scotland for four months or something, but I look back at that, and it was a big learning curve for…

— James Maddison

But, as a kid, I was travelling. Africa, Singapore, Australia, America, South Pacific, Philippines, France - I spent two years in each place and…

— Angus Macfadyen

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

— Margaret Thatcher

I didn't get the chance to go to university, even though I'd have liked to. I was expected to go straight to work because…

— Angela Rippon