Quotes About Admissions

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

When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.

I'm sad to be finishing school. I liked being in college. It was respectable to be a student. You get discount admissions all over town, and it makes you work.

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

I was a pretty unsavvy applicant, and I am grateful that the dean of admissions at Princeton chose to take a chance on a girl from an average public high school in southern Virginia.

You wan't to know what Classics are? said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. I'll tell you what Clasdics are. War and homos. A sententious and vulgar statement, certainly, but like many such gnomic vulgarities, it also contains a tiny splinter of truth.

A major flaw in this defective system is that no LSAT score is too low to be admitted. These dipshit law schools will take anybody who can borrow the federal money, and, as stated, anybody can borrow the federal money.

regardless of their LSAT scores

Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

Antes de las entrevistas, los alumnos estudiaban obsesivamente. Y después bebían para celebrarlo o para consolarse. Como consecuencia de ello, durante los once días de Admisiones la mayoría de los alumnos andaban nerviosos y exhaustos, en el mejor de los casos.

La habría seguido y habría intentado resolverlo todo, pero ella ya estaba fuera, y faltaba menos de una hora para mi entrevista de admisiones. Además, si trataba de ayudar a todas las mujeres que Ambrose había traumatizado, no tendría tiempo para comer ni para dormir.