“I really like the fact that it has a very open curriculum, that there aren’t any requirements,” she said. The previous year, she told Rookie why it was her chosen school. In 2014, “Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson graduated from Brown with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. Other Brown grads who ended up in Hollywood include John Krasinski (“The Office”), Julie Bowen (“Modern Family”) and Laura Linney (“Kinsey”). The college is the alma mater for a diverse range of famous faces, from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Jessica Capshaw. “I decided that as long as I had to be in college, I might as well test myself against the best,” he wrote in his book “ Trump: The Art of the Deal.”Īs one of the oldest and most esteemed schools in the country, Brown University (founded in 1764) was a home away from home for numerous prominent families like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys. He graduated in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in real estate. President Donald Trump started at Fordham University but transferred to Wharton after two years. In the arts world, actor Elizabeth Banks, singer/songwriter John Legend (then John Stephens), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan and poets Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams are former Penn students. Its Wharton School of Business counts some of the world’s most prolific businesspeople among its alumni, including Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Warren Buffet, currently the world’s third-richest person, per Forbes. However, TheDelite may receive a small commission from the purchase of any products or services through an affiliate link to the retailer's website.įounded by Benjamin Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania (known as Penn) is another prestigious Ivy League school.

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