Barack Obama

As per the school's paper reports, the POTUS was rejected from Swarthmore College. "Ah, Swarthmore, great school. They rejected me," he said to an alumni interning at his Senate office. When another graduate asked if the rumor was true, Obama said it was. "It really broke my heart, actually." He went on to attend Occidental College, transferred to Columbia University, and became the leader of the free world.

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 get this,'" she told People Magazine. Fey ended up attending the University of Virginia and studying drama.

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