 Carson's SAT college admission test scores ranked him somewhere in the low 90th percentile, which according to him resulted in a "Detroit Free Press" article "Carson Gets Highest SAT Scores in Twenty Years" of any student in Detroit public schools.He wanted to attend college farther away than his brother who was at the University of Michigan.Carson says he narrowed his college choices to Harvard or Yale, but could only afford the $10 application fee to apply for one of them.