Rubin was born in [[Washington, D.C.]] into a family of lawyers.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|first1=Fan|last1=Li|first2=Fabrizia|last2=Mealli|title=A Conversation with Donald B. Rubin|journal=[[Statistical Science]]|date=2014 |pages=439–457|volume=29|issue=3|doi=10.1214/14-STS489|arxiv=1404.1789|bibcode=2014arXiv1404.1789L|s2cid=58334768}}</ref> As an undergraduate Rubin attended the accelerated [[Princeton University]] [[PhD]] program where he was one of a cohort of 20 students mentored by the [[physicist]] [[John Archibald Wheeler|John Wheeler]] (the intention of the program was to confer degrees within 5 years of [[freshman]] [[matriculation]]). He switched to [[psychology]] and graduated in 1965. He began graduate school in psychology at Harvard with a [[National Science Foundation]] fellowship, but because his statistics background was considered insufficient, he was asked to take introductory statistics courses. | Rubin was born in [[Washington, D.C.]] into a family of lawyers.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|first1=Fan|last1=Li|first2=Fabrizia|last2=Mealli|title=A Conversation with Donald B. Rubin|journal=[[Statistical Science]]|date=2014 |pages=439–457|volume=29|issue=3|doi=10.1214/14-STS489|arxiv=1404.1789|bibcode=2014arXiv1404.1789L|s2cid=58334768}}</ref> As an undergraduate Rubin attended the accelerated [[Princeton University]] [[PhD]] program where he was one of a cohort of 20 students mentored by the [[physicist]] [[John Archibald Wheeler|John Wheeler]] (the intention of the program was to confer degrees within 5 years of [[freshman]] [[matriculation]]). He switched to [[psychology]] and graduated in 1965. He began graduate school in psychology at Harvard with a [[National Science Foundation]] fellowship, but because his statistics background was considered insufficient, he was asked to take introductory statistics courses. |