I tend to think Emma Roberts is an entitled, smug little brat, but I keep holding out hope that she will eventually do some growing up, stop relying on nepotism, and begin to carve out her own identity separate from her Aunt Julia, and separate from Young, Privileged, Entitled Hollywood. Have my prayers just been answered? Emma confirms to Just Jared that she is currently headed to Sarah Lawrence College for her freshman year. She’s 20 – most incoming freshmen are still 18, right? I was 17 when I matriculated. Anyway, maybe Emma just wasn’t “happening” in Hollywood, or maybe she (gasp) actually wants to learn something beyond ordering lattes and shopping. I think she should be applauded.
Emma Roberts is hitting the books this fall. The 20-year-old Scream 4 actress (currently dating ex-Glee star Chord Overstreet) will begin her freshman year at Sarah Lawrence in Bronxville, New York when classes begin September 5.
“I’m leaving for New York tomorrow to attend my very first semester of college,” she exclusively told JustJared.com on Sunday night. “I’m studying English literature and couldn’t be more excited!”
Famous Sarah Lawrence alums include Barbara Walters, Tea Leoni, Julianna Margulies, Holly Robinson Peete, Elisabeth Rohm, Kyra Sedgwick, Carly Simon, Yoko Ono, Vera Wang, Eric Mabius, Larisa Oleynik, Carrie Fisher, Robin Givens, Lauren Holly and the late Jill Clayburgh.
[From Just Jared & Us Weekly]
Jesus, I didn’t know all of those chicks went to Sarah Lawrence! I had a friend who was desperate to go there back in the day – I think she did get in, but then she found out how much it was going to cost (Sarah Lawrence is private). She didn’t end up going.
Anyway, what are the odds Emma is just doing this to look brainy and intellectual and then she’ll be out of there as soon as she’s offered some parts? *coughcoughEmmaWatsoncough*
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Goooooood luck to all her future classmates. And whoever else that crosses her path — especially if her lovely aunt decides to pay her a visit.
I graduated from SLC, and I gotta say–I don’t think going there will necessarily help her be any less of a smug, entitled brat. The education is absolutely top-notch, but the social scene is all rich hipsters and trustifarians.
http://gawker.com/news/kids-today/the-most-annoying-liberal-arts-school-in-the-us-282425.php
Good luck to her. It’d be interesting to see how she goes when she can’t rely on her aunt’s name to open doors for her.
Emma Watson is doing a semester/year in Oxford before returning to the states to finish her degree. What is with your need for her to finish her degree in a neat four year package? It’s not like any of these actresses will need to use their degrees.
My sister went there and acts just as bratty and entitled as Emma. I’m sure she’ll fit in. Good luck, I guess. Hope she sticks with it.
Hmmmm…we’ll see, she’s been papped a lot lately so it will be interesting to see how much she misses the attention.
Emma Watson is spending a year at Oxford and then returning next year to Brown to finish.
cosign with @Sammy
Emma watson is doing her third year at home in oxford. Did you consider that maybe she was homesick? and maybe going home for the HP press made her realise she wanted to be around friends and family while continuing her education
Hopefully she sticks with it and gets an education beyond just Hollywood.
I agree w/ girlnone that school has a rep for being among the most obnoxious pretentious schools. But on the gossip side I’ve also heard stories of lots of kinky sex on that campus there so maybe there will be some good gossip (LOL).
I will go ahead and echo the complaints of others on this thread — enough with the Emma Watson hate. I mean good grief, the way she is repeatedly bashed on this site, one would think she were a Lohan-esque party girl out clipping babies. She took a break from school and is now going to Oxford in the coming semester. I’m not even a fan or anything, but I still feel the need to say that you should really get over the Emma hate.
P.S., I’m bitchier than normal today because my wisdom teeth got yanked and I now resemble a St. Bernard who has been stung by wasps in the lips with hanging, swollen jowls.
@Kaiser – “Anyway, what are the odds Emma is just doing this to look brainy and intellectual and then she’ll be out of there as soon as she’s offered some parts?”
Bingo!
Why can’t people just say “good for her pursuing an education” and let it alone. All this “she’s snotty, the school’s snotty, let’s see how long it lasts” is really negative. If she goes for a year it is better than most young people these days who can barely get out of high school.
Good on her for testing the educational waters.
Sammy: “What is with your need for her to finish her degree in a neat four year package?”
I agree with this sentiment, I know lots of people who started school well into their 20s(and older),took the year off,went part time etc. It took them longer, but the main thing is that they DID finish. Sometimes life happens when your busy making other plans. People need to relax, its not a race. Your life, your timeline. the end.
I agree with Kaiser, I never thought of it, but there is something very smug about Emma.
Emma Watson…Emma Roberts.. is their a difference? Good for the image. Out of all the Emma’s now I perfer Emma Stone. Kaiser I love you for the cough-cough at the end. Why don’t other people see that? God people are so dumb.
I graduated from Sarah Lawrence, many years ago. What a fantastic school it is: students actually have to think creatively and take responsibility for designing their own unique courses of study. No textbooks! Primary source material, only! Lots of reading & LOTS of writing.
While it’s true, there is a share of entitled brats, they are not looked upon lightly by the school. I remember Sam Robards being kicked out for a time so he could grow up. I don’t know if he ever came back, but he had the option to.
I’m currently a grad student at Sarah Lawrence College. We generally don’t have a lot of contact with the undergrads but it’s a tiny campus so at times we intermingle. I’ll let you ladies know what I see or hear! This should be good!
Sarah Lawrence cannot be all bad since we have wonderful and brainy spies such as “tiny teacher” who are willing to keep us posted if Emma Roberts stirs up any trouble 😉
I would take Emma’s English Literature degree over Natalie Portman’s Psychology one, even if she did it at Harvard. Psychology is such a freaking soft subject.
And quit hating on Emma Watson, she may be smug but she did get accepted to Oxford’s JLA program.
I do not think it’s a big deal to wait before college. For traditional students, I think it’s better. I wish I spent time working or traveling before college. It pushes off the real world by a little, and you can do things before the world of student loans and responsibilities.
Maybe Kaiser’s point is that these young ladies have all the money in the world to finish their degrees in four years time, unlike the average college student, who is struggling to afford to even go or finish. Some of us, *coughcough me cough*, had to do two tours of Iraq just so they could afford to finish. However, I will not hate on them if they take a break for a year or two. We each have our own educational path.
*BTW, I graduated in May at 32. Yeah, bitches!! LOL!
@Hey Nonny
Aaaaand this is why I love Danica McKellar — hot b*tch got an advanced degree in math! Let’s see some engineers happen out of Hollywood.
My sister works for Seventeen, and she was part of the team that interviewed Miranda Cosgrove. Apparently, MC is super analytical and whip-smart. Someone get her to MIT stat!
Actually, I think Kaiser is right in concern to Emma Watson. I did a year abroad at Oxford (Wadham College) when I was in college, and you had to apply in December for the program. Emma’s publicist had some article up on people that said she was taking time off in the spring. Nobody who studies abroad says they are “taking time off,” they say “I’m studying abroad” or that they are doing an exchange program. I think some strings were pulled to save face and she was let into a study abroad program at a very late date. Celebrity perks annoy me when it comes to education.
“And quit hating on Emma Watson, she may be smug but she did get accepted to Oxford’s JLA program”
It’s called having money
People who are defending Emma Watson: the point isn’t that the author is just being “mean”, she’s stating the fact that Emma dropped out of Brown to do Perks and Lancome, even though Emma swore that education was her top priority, she wanted normalcy, she wanted a typical college experience, she didn’t want media attention, she didn’t want to really be in the Hollywood spotlight anymore. But right when she’s offered Perks and Lancome she drops right out of Brown. Sure, she’s free to do whatever she wants, but she shouldn’t pretend to be something she’s not or claim she’s something she’s not. And everyone knows how WarnerBros adjusted their schedule to HER schooling, and yet right when HP is over and she’s offered other things, she drops right out of the education that WB tried so hard to help work out with her. Also note that this then alters everyone else’s schedules on set, crew, etc. And YES, she’s going to Oxford and supposedly going back to Brown (won’t know until she literally does), but the point the author is saying is that Watson ditched school when offered exactly what she supposed didn’t want: other gigs that provided her with fame, media attention, money, not normalcy and everything else she claimed she wanted. I’d honestly respect her more if she didn’t always contradict herself. It’s great that she decided to go to college because someone with her money wouldn’t ever have to, but right when she dropped out for exactly what she said she didn’t want in her life anymore, it made me question whether college is just for show or part of her “good-girl Emma Watson” image. I am quite sure this is what the author was trying to get at.
People who are defending Emma Watson: the point isn’t that the author is just being “mean”, she’s stating the fact that Emma dropped out of Brown to do Perks and Lancome”
Really good point
@ Hey Nonny.
I beg to differ on Psychology being a soft subject. I’m currently working on my first of three degrees in Neuropsychology. It isn’t easy!
I do agree though, it would be nice to see more women (in general) in physics, engineering and the like. Oh well.
DIdn’t her Aunt do a movie about Sarah Lawrence girls..MONA LISA Smile? I love that movie. Sarah Lawrence’s an all girl school so the girls are bit skanky there.lol.
@bitchbelying: Sarah Lawrence hasn’t been a women-only college for about 40 years or so.
@ Hey Nonnny:
I’m here to defend my Psych degree. PLEASE don’t ever call my degree “soft”. Who are you to judge? I did my BSc. in Psychology here in the UK. In those three years, I conducted more than 10 independent research projects, wrote a dissertation and used more maths than most business and economics majors. We even explained some statistical concepts to Maths majors. Don’t EVER assume Psych is just some slacker course; if you do it right, it is a hard and rigorous scientific field of study. We were developing technology to use brainwaves to control objects so that the lives of those who are paralysed can be improved. Please keep your ignorant opinions to yourself. Anyone with real respect for education does not scoff at other people’s areas of academic pursuits.
@ Lucy: Hi!!!! And good luck.
Emma Watson did not “drop out” of Brown. There is a legitimate difference between taking time off & dropping out. I, too, am irritated by all the Watson hate. She is an bright, intelligent young lady who knows how to keep her private life private. If she were stumbling out of bars at 5am then it might be a different story.
Oh & good for ER. SR is a great school, but notoriously full of rich snobs. Sounds like she’ll fit right in
It’s sad people get irritated over others dislike for a celebrity they praise. She dropped out of Brown. She left Brown. She lost her spot. Her own people and Emma said she was leaving Brown. What got her to Oxford was money. She never finished the two years required to do such a “transfer”. Kaiser is right with all the coughing.
Why the Emma Roberts hate? You get on people for doing what you say irritates you. I hate no one but it is fun to point out the obvious as others take things WAY too personal about someone they don’t know. Calling all cars!! Calling all cars. Come in because the reality train is leaving.
@Bodhi
When you terminate your schedule at an American university (meaning you are not taking classes), you have dropped out and depending on how soon you drop out, you can get a certain percentage of the tuition back (the later you wait, the less you get). There’s no different between taking a break and dropping out other than the fact that “taking a break” means one has dropped out with intentions of returning. The phrase “drop out” obviously has a negative vibe to it because of society, but it is not necessarily negative. I am currently a college student and I have had a number of friends drop out temporarily (health issues) and come back in a few semesters. It happens. A few were music majors and they had to re-audition, which sucks, but generally it was easy to re-accept them because they were already in the dept. But anyway, regardless of the words you choose to use, she did not take any classes last semester, therefore, she terminated her schedule/dropped out temporarily.
And btw, I am not hating on Emma Watson. I’m just stating facts along with current university procedure. Also, Miss Watson has been photographed clearly drunk leaving clubs in London and more recently, a strip club in NY. Before you go defending someone, do your research. Not every celeb is the innocent person they claim to be. Hollywood is a business, love, not a place for role models.
@xxS: I think it has more to do with the author constantly bringing up Watson’s taking time off; readers already know what Kaiser thinks about the situation, so references to it remind people of previous posts in which Watson was perhaps not treated very fairly.
As for WB rescheduling for her education… well, she had a lot of bargaining power with them, didn’t she? She was Hermione Granger, & by the time she was ready to go to college, there was no way the public would have accepted another actress playing her, so the studio had to be lenient. With these other projects, she wasn’t in the same position, any other person could have been found had she been unable to make herself available, so it’s unfair of you to say that she could have done this & that because of what happened during the HP filmings, because they are completely different circumstances.
Also, Kaiser’s comment inferring that Watson wants to “look” brainy etc, is very uncalled for; Watson has always been a good student & has always received top grades in school. Her parents are both academics, both with professional jobs, so it has probably always been in her upbringing (most likely drilled into her, as is the case with a lot of families with a similar structure) to have further education etc, not just a passing phase until she got more roles.
People, & things, change. A lot can happen in just a year. Even if she did drop out & never went back, you cannot keep quoting things she may have said in the past & holding her to them, seeing as she’s so young, & who really knows what’s in store? She also said when she was younger that she’d never ever kiss Dan or Rupert, & look what happened in the last film, haha.
@shaishai
10 in 3 years?! I bow down to you. I’m on my second, hopefully will get to do a poster presentation at a conference or two in 2012.
@Doosh:
Clever name. Anyway, the writer of this website is entitled to bring up anything about anyone they chose to. This is clearly a celebrity gossip website, so there may be some sort of bias, of course. Regardless, the writer is entitled to their opinion as you are to yours and as I am to mine. Emma’s ditching Brown for Perks and Lancome are legit things to hold against her for the simple fact that she tremendously contradicted herself. Look at the documented records if you need proof that she contradicted herself. As I said, she’s free to do whatever she wants, but she shouldn’t make herself sound like something she’s not. It’s fine for her to actually be a “fame-whore” or typical self-promoting female celebrity, but she continuously claims she is anything but – this is clearly false for many reasons.
As I said, I am not a fan of her nor do I hate her. I just find it humorous that so many people are clouded by the image she has crafted when she so continuously and deliberately contradicts everything she claims she is and does. People tend to put her on a higher pedestal than other female celebrities her age, but if you really look into things (her actions versus her claims), you would actually see that she isn’t above other actresses. She, like many other of the better-trained celebrities under the media’s eye, knows how to manipulate the media. She is a very clever girl, but I personally believe she is mostly, if not only, Hollywood-business clever. No judgement from me, but people tend to unwarrantably give this girl a lot of credit for the things she claims she is/does, rather than actually see how she continuously contradicts herself.
That being said, you’re entitled to your own opinion – as am I. If you want to defend her to the death, be my guest. I shall respect your response (if you choose to write one), but I will most likely not agree with it.
Kaiser ,you nail it with”cough,cough”Emma Watson,these girls are so obviously using school as hiding place when there’s no movie offers,and then suddenly will drop out when even a commercial add offers comes up,bitch please!
xxS: It’s spelled “judgment” – no “e”- however – that is trivial (I was being trivial) – your comment is well thought out.
@Emma:
Thank you for the correction. I appreciate it. Being that this is a celebrity gossip site, I generally do not revise my statements like I would with perhaps an essay.
If you type into google The Real Emma Watson, you’ll actually find a blog that someone has made up. It’s really a discussion blog, not a fan site or an “I hate Watson” site. We’ve actually discussed her ditching Brown a number of times. It’s an enlightening read, honestly. And it’s written in a sense that gives what she says versus what she really goes. It’s interesting for Watson fans or non-fans alike. And it gives you insight into how these celebrities really work (along with media, etc).
Also, @Kikay: Yes I agree. But I mean, what else could these girls do? Right now, both are banking/relying on different things. Roberts banks on her Aunt’s name and Emma banks on her association with Harry Potter. Soon, both girls are going to have to audition for roles, rather than just be offered. Remember, Hollywood is a business. They want actors/actresses who have an enormous following at that particular time. For example, I think *at the moment* someone like Emma Stone would be chosen over these Emma’s. Mainly because of her current following plus her actual acting talents. With Watson, for example, when the Harry Potter mania begins to calm down (and I’m sure it has started to being that the last movie was released), Emma’s name won’t be so big anymore. She’s been handed offers (Burberry, Ballet Shoes) during her time on HP because of the name association, not particularly because of talent. In fact, Burberry’s sales increased during Emma’s modeling with them for that season.
It’s really all a business and these girls, along with other actors and actresses, know how to play the business. They’ve both been taught from a young age.
Her hair color is sickening.
As if going to uni automatically makes you more appealing coughjerkfrancocough.
I don’t understand why the girls HAVE TO get a uni education to make them less of a Hollywood-stereotype. Uni doesn’t make me like or respect anyone more. It’s the personality.
@Ellegin: It’s because American society puts celebrity on a pedestal. In terms of what’s “important” in the news, it’s generally more important to Americans that Kim Kardashian got married than it is that x number of soldiers were recently murdered in Iraq.
If celebrities do something that is viewed as “good” to society, they are commended for their actions. If they do something viewed as “bad” to society, they are condemned.
College is considered a “good” thing in our society. And celebs who go to college are further commended for their actions because they generally have enough money to never have to go to college and get a degree, like just about every other citizen in this country. I personally don’t think it’s any major “pat on the back” for a celeb to go to college. And as I’ve pointed out in previous posts here, it seems as though both Emmas are going the education route for the boost to their images. Not to beat a dead horse, but Watson dropped out immediately once HP ended and she was offered a role in Perks and to be an ambassadress in Lancome – despite the fact that she’s said upon numerous occasions that education is her top priority and she wanted normalcy/to be out of Hollywood’s spotlight. Being that Emma Roberts is rather controversial , I’d say she’s going to end up going down the same route as Watson, which is why the author did the “coughEmmawatsoncough” thing.
I don’t get why it’s her fault her Dad is famous (a bit weird but nonetheless) and her Aunt is Julia Roberts? Are all of you saying you wouldn’t consider trading places for a month or two? Be happy for the girl. Life sux and it’s nice that at least some of us get to enjoy it. As for Emma Watson: How could she not be a little smug? Look at her life. We all struggle with vanity anyway, it’s human nature.
NEPOTISM (Love this topic) So are you saying her audience is that stupid that they are laying out $10 a pop plus to go to her movies? ALL those people are only going to her movies for Julia? Please. She inherited some talent because she is on this board getting a lot of feedback. Hatred/Love both passionate feelings. She is reaping both. People who aren’t successful scream nepotism all the time, I work at a performing arts theatre and people aren’t paying $45 a ticket to see the owners daughter just because. Believe Me. People don’t have that much money to throw around.