Chloe Grace Moretz, the 19-year-old actress who rose to fame in 2010's "Kick Ass" and can next be seen in Seth Rogen's "Neighbors 2," is not your average teenager. While the majority of kids her age are studying for finals right now, Moretz is carefully planning what is shaping up to be an impressive Hollywood career. Though her next film takes place in a college setting, the young actress has no plans to follow in the footsteps of fellow starlets such as Natalie Portman, Emma Watson and Jodie Foster, who all took a break from Hollywood to focus on academics.
Moretz has been home schooled since she was 9 ,and she has no intention of calling a timeout on her career to attend college.
"I love education," Moretz said in a recent interview. "It's always been a huge part of my life. I've always really prided myself on being a smart young woman. But the problem I have with it right now is that I've made all my own money since I was a kid, and I just really don't agree with our educational system right now, with the fact that I would have to be spending so much of my hard-earned money to go to college to get a higher education.
"To honestly end up resenting the entire experience because I'm paying it back for the next 10 to 15 years...I just feel like right now, it doesn't make any sense to me, until we get some real education reform."
The significant financial strain of receiving an education in America today is a "very big issue right now," in Moretz's mind. Though her upcoming "Neighbor s" does not deal directly with this problem, it did help open up Moretz's eyes to some of the problems current college kids are facing, such as the restrictions placed on female-oriented college organizations.
"We were looking into sororities and we found the crazy idea that sororities aren't allowed to throw parties," Moretz said. "That was totally something I wanted to talk about."
Similar to her character in the film, Shelby, Moretz views the rules governing Greek life and college overall as unfair and limiting.
"The problem with a lot of these institutionalized things [and even] Hollywood and sororities are that these things are run based on tradition, and we tend to fit molds," she said. "Even now, it's like we tend to try and fit the mold of the 'tough girl, the girls who's trying to be progressive, or a girl who is being forthright'...what I've always believed in for my life is to do what you feel is pertinent and do what you feel is relevant."
But the budding A-lister, who is dating Brooklyn Beckham, still has no plans to attend college anytime soon.
"I took it into my own hands once I got out of high school to teach myself and educate myself and learn about things I want to learn about, and travel, and kinda self-educate," she said.
