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Steve Jobs' biological mother, Joanne Schieble, was an unwed graduate student at the University of Wisconsin who insisted that her son be adopted by college graduates. An initial arrangement with a lawyer and his wife fell through when they decided they wanted a girl, leading to Jobs being placed with Paul and Clara Jobs. When Schieble discovered that Clara had never graduated from college and Paul had not finished high school, she refused to sign the final adoption papers for several weeks. According to Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography and Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement speech, she only relented once the couple signed a legal pledge promising to fund his future college education. Paul and Clara Jobs ultimately fulfilled this promise by using their life savings to send him to Reed College in 1972.