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William Henry Gates III is born to attorney Bill Gates, II and Mary Gates, a school teacher at the University of Washington. He is rasided in Seattle.
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Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 our of 1600 on teh SAT and subsequently enrooled at Harvard College in teh fall of 1973.
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He did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen, joining him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974.