I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.
I'm a Stanford kid through and through.
It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.
I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.
I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.
I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.