where did andrew young go to school?
Dillard University Howard University Hartford Seminary
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 Young announced he planned to attend Princeton in May 1998 . He chose Princeton over Boston College , University of Oklahoma , University of Pennsylvania , University of Texas , Vanderbilt University , and Yale University . Young 's decision was based on Princeton 's rising national profile in basketball and the opportunity to work with baseball coach Scott Bradley , who had played catcher for the Seattle Mariners while 6 – 10 pitcher Randy Johnson was with the team . 

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 Young was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the third round of the 2000 amateur draft and signed a $ 1 @.@ 65 million contract with Pittsburgh on September 6 after holding out until he gained assurances that he would be able to complete his collegiate education . His athletic career was not entirely on hold as an upperclassman , and he was able to get some low minor league experience before completing his degree at Princeton in politics in June 2002 and becoming a full @-@ time professional athlete . He played in the class A minor leagues after his junior year . Young then completed his senior thesis , entitled " The Impact of Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball on Racial Stereotypes in America : A Quantitative Content Analysis of Stories about Race in the New York Times " while commuting on minor league buses as a player for the Hickory Crawdads . Young was also offered a two @-@ year guaranteed contract to play basketball for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association in 2002 by fellow Princeton alum and Kings president Geoff Petrie . 

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 When John was nine , his father sent him to Hopkins Academy ; the next year , the father took him out again , in part because the boy was in constant trouble and in part because the father had lost his fortune in the Panic of 1819 . 

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 Young was born in Compton , California , the first child of Theodore and Verna Young . His middle name , Romelle , is derived from his father 's amateur R & B singing group , The Romells . His parents married in 1964 , separated in 1968 , and divorced in 1972 . His mother later remarried and had three children : sons Jerome and Tyree ( both deceased ) and daughter Shameka . In 1976 , Young began attending Vanguard Junior High School in Compton , but due to gang violence , he transferred to the safer suburban Roosevelt Junior High School . His mother later married Warren Griffin , whom she met at her new job in Long Beach , which added three stepsisters and one stepbrother to the family ; the stepbrother would eventually become rapper Warren G. 

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 He was raised in Wimbledon in his early years , and later moved to a Cotswold village near Oxford . He attended the Dragon School preparatory school in Oxford , and his parents divorced when he was 12 . When discussing his parents ' divorce in an interview with The Daily Telegraph , he stated : " I like to think it made me more compassionate in my understanding of human frailty " . 
