Quotes About Admissions

#1. Foreplay with him is the space between us: the things we haven't said; the admissions we haven't made. If I'm scared, I can't feel it, and if I'm shaking, it's surpassed by my anticipation.

Jessica Hawkins

#2. But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?

Anne Lamott

#3. Into the darkness of those admissions comes the fire of new truth: though I am not good enough, Christ was good enough for me.

Tullian Tchividjian

#4. Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

Bill Dedman

#5. 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.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#6. college and meets the Dean of Admissions, who signs

Various

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

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Lev Grossman

#9. If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Ina May Gaskin

#10. How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

Alexandra Robbins

#11. Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

Wendy Kopp

#12. You want 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 Classics are. Wars and homos.

Donna Tartt

#13. However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

Frederick Reines

#14. I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

Katey Sagal

#15. With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.

David Blunkett

#16. The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

Jonathan Grayer

#17. At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things.

Jonathan Grayer

#18. Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions ...

Auren Hoffman

#19. SAT scores play an important role in admissions, even though they are poor predictors of college performance.87 This benefits affluent students, who are far more likely to enroll in private test preparation and take the test multiple times to boost scores.

Elizabeth A. Armstrong

#20. One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

Phyllis Schlafly

#21. Barbed banter was the coin of their realm and heartfelt admissions of affection were rejected out of hand as counterfeit.

Sharon Kay Penman

#22. You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

Hayao Miyazaki

#23. I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Clarence Thomas

#24. To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.

Simon Hoggart

#25. I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They said, 'This is the Harvard Admissions Department. We'd like to let you know that you're accepted in the freshman class.' And I said, 'Come on, who is this really?'

Ben Bernanke

#26. When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, 'Because I'm going to change the world some day. And I'm giving you the chance to say, We knew her when.

Sarah Thebarge

#27. Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.

Richard Lugar

#28. ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Robert Sternberg

#29. I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Fran Lebowitz

#30. [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

Barbara Bergmann

#31. Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#32. Sign board outside my office - NO ADMISSION FOR ADMISSION

Amit Abraham

#33. NO ADMISSION FOR ADMISSION.

Amit Abraham