Getting a dreaded rejection letter from your dream school can seem like the end of the world, but don't despair — it happens to the best of us.
Plenty of wildly successful actors, business moguls, and politicians have had their Ivy League dreams dashed, but they found other paths and turned out just fine.
Here are 15 celebrities who found acceptance after rejection.
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Tina Fey played a Princeton University admissions officer in the 2014 movie "Admission," but things went a little differently when she applied to the elite school in the real world. "I went to my interview, and from the get-go was like, 'Yeah, I don't got this,'" she told People Magazine. Fey ended up attending the University of Virginia and studying drama.
Source: People Magazine
In 1974 Tom Hanks sent his SAT scores to M.I.T. and Villanova, "knowing such fine schools would never accept a student like me but hoping they’d toss some car stickers my way for taking a shot," he wrote in The New York Times. Hanks instead attended Chabot, a two-year community college in Hawyard, California. "That place made me what I am today," he wrote. Hanks later attended Sacramento State.
Source: The New York Times
Steven Spielberg, one of the most successful film directors of all time, was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Cinema Arts not once, but twice. He instead went to Cal State Long Beach, but dropped out just before graduating when he got a movie deal. Don't worry — he returned to finally get his diploma in 2002.
Source: CNN, People Magazine
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