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Ashley Judd, an alumna of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Kentucky, she majored in French and minored in anthropology, art history, theater, and women's studies. She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major. She graduated from the UK Honors Program and was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa but did not graduate with her class. In 2010, she earned a one-year mid-career master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
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Brooke Shields attended the New Lincoln School until eighth grade. She graduated from the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1983. She moved to a dorm at Princeton University to pursue her bachelor's degree in French literature, where she graduated in 1987
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Elizabeth Banks graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992, and is a member of the Massachusetts Junior Classical League. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority and was elected to the Friars Senior Society. She graduated magna cum laude in 1996 with a major in communications and a minor in theater arts. In 1998, she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California, where she earned an MFA degree
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Lisa Kudrow attended Portola Middle School in Tarzana, California. She graduated from Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Kudrow received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Vassar College, intending to follow in her father's footsteps and research headaches. Kudrow worked on her father's staff for eight years while breaking into acting, earning a research credit on his study on the comparative likelihood of left-handed individuals developing cluster headaches
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Famke Janssen speaks Dutch, English and French. Following her high-school graduation, Janssen studied economics for a year at the University of Amsterdam, which she later called "the stupidest idea I ever had." In the early 1990s, she enrolled at Columbia University to study creative writing and literature. She graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree
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Jodie Foster was a gifted child who learned to read at the age of three. She attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles. Her fluency in French has enabled her to act in French films, and she also dubs herself in French-language versions of most of her English-language films. She also understands Italian, although she does not speak it, as well as some German and Spanish. At her graduation in 1980, she delivered the valedictory address for the school's French division. Already a successful actor, Foster attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She majored in literature, writing her thesis on Toni Morrison under the guidance of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and graduated magna cum laude in 1985. She returned to Yale in 1993 to address the graduating class, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1997
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Claire Danes graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1997. In 1998, Danes began studies at Yale University. Director Oliver Stone wrote a letter of recommendation. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out to focus on her film career
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Cindy Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School in Illinois in 1984 as valedictorian. She earned an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, which she attended for only one quarter. She dropped out in order to pursue a full-time modeling career.
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Illustration on school choice by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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In a nearly 6,000-word essay, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI denounced the collapse of "normative standards regarding sexuality" among other things for the Catholic Church's ongoing sexual abuse crisis. Benedict resigned from the papacy in 2013. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Illustration on the University of Rhode Island's involvement in the admissions scandal by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Statement by World Buddhism Association Headquarters (sponsored)
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"Desperate Housewives" actress Felicity Huffman, pictured here with her brother Moore Huffman Jr. (left), has been charged with dozens of other parents in a college admissions bribery scandal.
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The Empire Beauty School, a for-profit college, is seen Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) **FILE**
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Elite University Coffers Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris brushed off concerns this week about how she plans to pay for her $315 billion plan to beef up teacher pay, a proposal that calls for a $13,500 raise per teacher. (Associated Press)
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Stanford University is one of eight universities that received a letter from the Department of Education that an investigation into compliance with federal financial aid regulations was underway. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2018 file photo, mourners bring flowers as they pay tribute at a memorial for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. The community of Parkland, Florida, is focusing on suicide prevention programs after two survivors of the Florida high school massacre there killed themselves this month. Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky said Monday, March 25, 2019, that officials are publicizing the available counseling services after a second Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student apparently killed himself over the weekend. (David Santiago/Miami Herald via AP, File)
