Dakota Fanning checks out NYU on her quest to find the a college to attend.

The actress, who turned sixteen a few months back, was witnessed taking a tour of NYU’s independent study school, Gallatin. She was checking out NYU.

As a child actress, she emerged in prestigious motion pictures such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte’s Web. She steadily commenced to move to more mature roles with Hounddog and The Secret Life of Bees. She has acquired abundant awards and is the youngest individual ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She currently goes to a private school at Campbell Hall in North Hollywood, where she is also on the cheerleading squad. She will be witnessed in the third film of the Twilight series, ‘Eclipse,’ and also in The Runaways.

Fanning is among the few child superstars, who have supplied precedence to their studies and have preferred to go to college. Harry Potter megastar, Emma Watson, is currently studying at Brown University. Anne Hathaway has studied at both, Vassar College and NYU’s Gallatin, the same school Dakota was spotted touring.

Other celebrated Gallatin alumni consist of campaigner, Christy Turlington, and Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, who went to the school in 2004 but decided to depart to chase their careers in fashion.