| Description | Celebrity |
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| The 'Black Swan' lead has a bachelor's degree from Harvard, making her the first alum to win an Academy Award for best actress, and took graduate courses at Hebrew University. | |
| He anticipated acceptances to both MIT and Purdue to study engineering, but the former 'Punk'd' host lost his scholarships when he broke into his high school as a prank. | |
| This late show host graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, where the school newspaper dubbed him the 'pre-eminent jokester' of the class of '85. | |
| She was valedictorian of her high school class, studied chemical engineering on scholarship at Northwestern University, and signed her first modeling contract in 1984. | |
| He is an accomplished economics professor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The Yale Law School grad has authored more than 30 books. | |
| Known for her role in 'The Office', this Dartmouth College theater major earned an Eleanor Frost Playwriting Award in 1999. | |
| In high school he played a class-cutting 'Freak,' and was a math whiz who interned at Lockheed Martin. | |
| This famous film director as an IQ of 160, which is equivalent to that of physicist Stephen Hawking | |
| This actress plays a neurobiologist on 'The Big Bang Theory', and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience in real life. | |
| As a Harvard student, this actor's playwriting course assignment led to the development of 'Good Will Hunting.' | |
| After the success of 'The Fast & the Furious,' this actress left Hollywood to study English at Yale. | |
| This high school valedictorian attended Juilliard to study drama, but the 'American Beauty' lead dropped out after two years to act on Broadway and then in films. | |
| This 'Basic Instinct' actress has an IQ of 154. When she was 15 she accepted a scholarship to Edinboro University. | |
| 'The King's Speech' actor is credited as a co-author of an academic paper on human brain research. | |
| The 'X-Files' actor graduated with a B.A. in English literature from Princeton and Master's in English lit from Yale. | |
| This 'Taxi Driver' actress is a French scholar who attended Yale. | |
| This talk show host has transplanted thousands of hearts and lungs. | |
| This 'Public Enemy' could play about 15 instruments, and learned to play songs by ear. | |
| This 'Friends' actress graduated from Vassar College with a degree in biology, and worked with her father, a world renowned headache specialist. | |
| This two-time Oscar nominated 'Primal Fear' actor studied history at Yale. After a back injury forced his retirement from crew, he tried his hand at theater. | |
| This 'White House Down' actor had near-perfect SAT scores, and an IQ of 184. | |
| This 'Underworld' actress studied French and Russian literature at Oxford University. | |
| This talk show host earned a law degree from Northwestern University and became a campaign advisor to Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. | |
| This 'The Office' actor taught English in Costa Rica before enrolling at Brown. | |
| This 'Parks and Rec' actress and daughter of Quincy Jones displayed musical and theatrical talents as a student at Harvard. | |
| The soulful singer of 'Ordinary People' was offered scholarships to Georgetown, Morehouse College, and Harvard, but he turned them down to go to UPenn, where he studied English and | |
| This actor studied pre-med at Duke University, got his MD at UNC Chapel Hill, completed his residency in New Orleans, and was cast as the OB in 'Knocked Up.' | |
| This wild and crazy guy is a MENSA member, and also authored screenplays, novels, and children's books. | |
