Published On 22 Aug 2014
Pursuing your dreams is sometimes incompatible with finishing your education and getting a bachelor’s degree in your chosen field of study. Many stars simply followed their instincts and made it big without “wasting” a few extra years on their education.
While there are plenty of celebrities who never went to college, some, like Chris Pratt and Lady Gaga, dropped out after a single semester. Find out which big celebs didn’t even make it to their first day of college.
Halle Berry
Even though she was very involved in her education in high school, Halle Berry ended up choosing the beauty pageant circuit over higher education. She was both class president and a newspaper editor in high school, but didn’t pursue her studies.
Luckily, things worked out just fine for Berry, who was the first African-American Miss World entrant in 1986 and the only black woman to win an Oscar for a leading role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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