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I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.

~David Einhorn

Topics: Analysis Being Critical Debate Expense Grades Great High High School Logic Member Most Organization School Some Spent Team Training Working

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I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

~Debbie Macomber

Topics: Achieved Age Always Attend Been College Creative Did Good Good Grades Grades Graduated High High School Married Never Opportunity School Time Women Young Young Women

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There are not grades of racism. There's racism.

~Dede Gardner

Topics: Grades Racism

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Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

~Dennis Wilson

Topics: Baby Brian Busy Did Everything Failed Fighting Got Grades Great Kind Middle Oldest Running Too Troublemaker Wild

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What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

~Derek Bok

Topics: About Academic Achievement After College End Game Going Grades Highest Important Kind Mean Means Say Some Up Who

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I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.

~Doreen Cronin

Topics: Became Curriculum Editor Elementary Grades Literature Math Particularly Primary Programs Science Very Well

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I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

~Duffy Daugherty

Topics: Been Could Except Grades Scholar

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Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.

~Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Topics: Again April Back Been Came Cope Fall Following Freedom Freshman Freshman Year Got Grades Guess Had Having Kept Lasted Out Prep Pretty Reason Repeating Same Schools Strict Then Time Until Wild Wonderful Wonderful Time Yale Year

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At Horace Mann High School in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, those who receive double time on tests are plentiful enough to qualify as their own segment of the student body. Known to their peers as 2Ts, they participate in the same activities, get the same grades, and attend the same range of colleges.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Activities Affluent Attend Body Colleges Country Double Enough Get Grades High High School Known New New York Own Participate Peers Plentiful Qualify Range Receive Same School Schools Segment Student Tests Those Time Top Who York

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I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.

~Emun Elliott

Topics: Actually Doing Forensic Found Grades Interest Interests Off Other Science Scientist Standard Subjects Them Three Wanted Wear Were While

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