Academic Quote by Sonia Sotomayor

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has been unnecessary…

— Howard Gardner

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got…

— Maya Lin

Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in…

— Elizabeth Thornton

A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by…

— Samuel Alito

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find…

— Lev Grossman

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number…

— Robert Evans

High School really did go by as fast as they say. Like wasn't I just a freshmen?

— Anonymous

I was a pretty unsavvy applicant, and I am grateful that the dean of admissions at Princeton chose to take a chance on a…

— Asha Rangappa

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful…

— Bill Gates

“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