Sentence examples for schools background from inspiring English sources

He thought my Texas public schools background had ill prepared me for the rigors of a Columbia education and that I had only been given a scholarship in a, he thought, misguided effort on the college's part to attract a more diverse student body and mitigate Columbia's reputation as the Jewish commuter college in the Ivy League.... We here today are so overprivileged it hurts.

The schools represent the higher (Private ICSC board schools), middle (Private matriculation board schools); lower socio-economic (Public state board schools) backgrounds and they represent the literate late childhood population in India.

A public-school background helped.

So is her charm school background.

Victoria Melody comes from an art-school background and is not a trained performer.

Mr. Hunt, 41, shares with Mr. Cameron a private-school background and a degree from Oxford.

These are teenagers almost exclusively from an all-male boarding school background.

The nursing school background is a plus; it adds a human element.

You look for guys that maybe have a high school background.

I'm worried about having a state school background – the stereotype is that everyone at Oxford is from private school.

Strummer's despised public-school background provided him with very little in the way of an education.