14 Smartie Celebrities Who Went to Ivy League Schools (PHOTOS)

School: Dartmouth College
Graduated: 2001

After bringing the laughs as the delightfully self-obsessed Kelly Kapoor on The Office for eight seasons, Mindy Kaling is set to play a young OB/GYN doctor looking for love on her new FOX comedy, The Mindy Project, this fall. Yet before all her network TV success, Mindy was just another drama student walking the halls of Dartmouth College, where she performed with an a cappella group and an improv troupe. In her book, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), she jokes that she decided to go to the New Hampshire school to “pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas.”