“Stranger Things” star Noah Schnapp is headed to Philadelphia and University City this fall to attend the University of Pennsylvania.
Late last year, Netflix shared a video of the now-17-year-old learning he had been accepted into the prestigious Ivy League school. The actor confirmed in an interview published last week that he will be attending Penn and living in the dorms with other freshman students.
“I was thinking of going for acting,” Schnapp told Flaunt magazine. For now, he has settled on business school instead. “Acting was just kind of repetitive, and I wanted to try something new.”
He added that his “Stranger Things” co-star Millie Bobby Brown, 18, is “doing the same thing with her schooling.”
According to a recent interview with Allure, Brown is “an online college student at Purdue University studying human services.” Purdue is located in Lafayette, Ind.
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Schnapp, who was born in New York City and grew up in Scarsdale, has played Will Byers on “Stranger Things” – one of streaming platform Netflix’s most popular projects – since it premiered in 2016. Brown has played the character Eleven in the series since it began. The critically-acclaimed show has run for four seasons and a fifth and final season has been announced.
In addition to acting, Schnapp has already branched out into other professions. He told Flaunt that he has spent his summer working as a lifeguard.
“It’s kind of a ‘just for fun thing,’” he said. “I’ve kind of grown up with a normal life and normal friends and stuff outside of Stranger Things, so it’s kind of kept me grounded.”