where did william howard taft go to high school?
Woodward High School
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 Considered the top high school player in the country , Bradley initially chose to attend Duke University in the fall of 1961 . However , after breaking his foot in the summer of 1961 during a baseball game and thinking about his college decision outside of basketball , Bradley decided to enroll at Princeton due to its record in preparing students for government or United States Foreign Service work . He had been awarded a scholarship at Duke , but not at Princeton ; the Ivy League does not allow its members to award athletic scholarships , and Bradley 's family 's wealth disqualified him from receiving financial aid . 

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 Offered baseball scholarships by Stanford University and the University of California , Berkeley , he instead attended the University of Miami on an academic scholarship , due to his excellent high school grades . He chose Miami for its academics , its athletics , and its social scene , noting : " I think the girls were the deal closer on the recruiting trip . " 

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 He decided to pursue a career in film . After attending two other film schools , he graduated from Full Sail University in another Central Florida town , Winter Park , as the class valedictorian . He moved to Southern California and began working as a story editor , primarily doing uncredited rewrites . 

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 Despite high intelligence and academic achievements , Said proved a troublesome student and was expelled from Victoria College in 1951 , and was sent from Egypt to the eastern U.S. , where he attended Northfield Mount Hermon School , Massachusetts , an elite college @-@ prep boarding @-@ school where he endured a psychologically difficult year of social alienation . Nonetheless , Said excelled academically , and achieved the rank of either first ( valedictorian ) or second ( salutatorian ) in a class of one hundred sixty students . 

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 In February 1930 he enrolled at Woodward School for Boys in Washington , D.C. as a means of earning credits for admission to George Washington University , thereby avoiding the university 's entrance examination , and successfully graduated in June . The following September , he entered George Washington University as a freshman . 
