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Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable…

— Sebastian Thrun

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Smart enough to get into Yale. Economists studied students who had been admitted to two schools of higher and lower prestige but decided to…

— Chip Heath

I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think…

— Robert Hass

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus,…

— David Ignatius

“In the last decade, the percentage of students from families at the highest income levels who got a bachelor’s degree has grown to 82…

— Jeffrey J. Selingo

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

“We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only…

— Glenn Beck

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get…

— Peter Diamandis

“Karen Arnold, a researcher at Boston College, followed eighty-one high school valedictorians and salutatorians from graduation onward to see what becomes of those who…

— Eric Barker

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

— Derek Bok

One of the best highlights of my Harvard business program I attended was I had 60 students in my class. I was the tallest,…

— Zaza Pachulia