Did Brad Pitt move to Los Angeles with his diploma in hand? How many Kardashians graduated from college? (Hint: only one...) Did Blake Lively graduate high school before filming The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? What is Meryl Streep's undergraduate alma mater?

Am I testing your celeb knowledge? Yes. But I'm also making a point: celebrity status and education don't necessarily go hand-in-hand. Working full-time-whether it's acting in a weekly sitcom, filming a movie or recording albums-often requires celebs to choose between achieving their dream or finishing their education. That's why Nolan Gould's recent academic accomplishment is all the more unique.

Gould, who stars as Luke Dunphy in Modern Family, is currently television's most endearingly mindless child. Luke is a scene-stealer with his foolish one-liners and physical comedy. I have rolled many an embarrassed eye at Luke's character in sheer disbelief that such an adorably dim-witted child truly exists.
But while he plays a character who can't recognize his own name when pronounced with an accent, in real life, 13-year-old Gould just graduated from high school. That's right-five years early. He nonchalantly explained on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, "Over the summer, I did a lot of studying and I took an exam and tested out of high school." He added that he plans to continue his education by taking online community college courses.

I'm not sure what the rest of you were doing when you were 13, but I know I definitely wasn't making thousands of dollars by starring in a hit ABC comedy, attending the Golden Globes and, oh yeah, having the intelligence of a high school senior. Multi-tasking, meet Nolan Gould.

While Gould's accomplishment is certainly above-and-beyond the average student-let alone celebrity-many of Hollywood's famous faces have interestingly balanced school and their professions. Look at the unstoppable Academy Award-winning Natalie Portman, Harvard University alumna of the class of 2003, who was so intent on focusing on her education that, at the time, she told the New York Post, "I don't care if [college] ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than be a movie star."

Or, on the other hand, consider Will Smith who bragged to Reader's Digest that, with the assistance of a family friend in admissions, he could have attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He claimed, "I had pretty high SAT scores and they needed black kids, so I probably could have gotten in," but never even applied to the university in favor of pursuing acting.

So where will Gould go from here? Like Portman and Smith, will he ultimately ditch education and devote his life to acting? Or, will he choose to pursue an academic career? I guess that's a question to consider once the lil' guy earns his driver's license.