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15 Celebrity Parents Whose Kids Went to Ivy League Schools

Having celebrity parents comes with tons of perks — nepotism is alive and well in 2025 — but being a nepo baby doesn’t automatically grant you access to the nation’s top universities. For that, you have to have the grades. You don’t see too many celebrity kids going the Ivy League route unless they are really dedicated, with the brains and the grades to match.

Take Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s daughter Violet for example. In her first year at Yale University, she already had a paper published in the Global Health Review about the California wildfires that affected her family. And Jodie Foster’s son Kit, who graduated from Princeton University in 2024 with a degree in chemistry.

Other celebrity kids want to follow in their parents’ entertainment footsteps — just with a college degree under their belt first. This includes Sarah Jessica Parker and Mathew Broderick’s son James Wilkie, who graduated from Brown University in May 2025 and wants to be an actor.

Sure, their parent’s name might help them get in the door, but once there, these celebrity students have to work just as hard as everyone else to graduate. Whether their kids attend an Ivy for a short amount of time or they graduate from one of these prestigious universities, these celebrity parents couldn’t be prouder.

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