Bill Gates says he got into every Ivy League school he applied to, but tailored a different ‘persona’ for each application: ‘Each was a performance’
I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.
Bill Gates was accepted into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. He says he treated each application like a 'performance.'
My Beginnings," Bill Gates explained the different approaches he took when applying to Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.
Bill Gates' preschool teachers described him as a 'rebellious child' with a 'complete lack of concern for any phase of school life'
Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, wasn't a fan of school from an early age.
Double Billing: Bill Gates and Bill Nye geek out on computers, science and changing human history
Bill Nye, the "Science Guy," and Bill Gates, the software guy, came together on one stage Thursday night in Seattle for an ...
Bill Gates' Harvard Professor: 'I Wasn't Surprised When He Dropped Out—But I Wish I'd Invested in Him'—$100 Could Be $650,000 Today
Bill Gates didn't stick around Harvard for long—he dropped out after three semesters to start Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) in 1975. But he was there just long enough to leave a lasting impression. One of ...
Bill Gates' Early Departure From Harvard: Not Surprising, Says Former Professor: 'I Just Wish I'd Invested In Him'
Harry Lewis, the former Harvard professor of Bill Gates, recently expressed that Gates' decision to drop out of Harvard to ...
Bill Gates’ book ‘Source Code’ is a surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years
The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates explores the making of his internal operating system in new memoir
With his 70th birthday looming on this year's horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the ...
Bill Gates' Harvard professor ‘wasn't surprised' he dropped out: ‘I just wish I'd invested in him'
Bill Gates was curious and “mature” beyond his years at Harvard University before leaving to found Microsoft, one of his ...
A soulful Bill Gates visits Boston and shares some regrets
The Microsoft cofounder talked about his ‘pretty ideal’ childhood, with one shocking loss, at a Harvard Book Store event on Monday evening.
How Bill Gates knew he was different
The Harvard dropout revolutionized the computer industry and, later, the world of philanthropy. Now he has been looking back at his childhood, with the first of a three-part autobiography fittingly ...