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My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

— Troian Bellisario

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

— Sami Gayle

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

— Nia Vardalos

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

— Ben Carson

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

— Rob Lowe

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

— Robert J. Fisher

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

— Amy Tan

I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.

— Masi Oka

I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac.

— Shanley Caswell

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Robert Evans

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

— Winona LaDuke