How Far These Jersey Shore Stars Got In School

Chile-born Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was adopted as a baby and grew up in the town of Marlboro, N.Y. The pint-size guidette was the captain of her cheerleading squad during high school and later decided to shake her pom poms at Brookdale Community College, as well. "Cheerleading was my sport," she told Good Morning America in 2019. "It was my outlet. I loved it."

When this little ball of energy wasn't getting the crowd pumped up during game day, she was studying to become a veterinarian tech. Polizzi was proud to show off her knowledge of all things related to the industry during a 2011 interview with GQ: "Test me and bring me to a hospital. I can induce an animal, do surgery, do anesthesia, and take blood. So if you want to tell me I'm stupid again, let's go to an animal hospital." 

We love an educated meatball! However, as former co-star Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola later said on Naughty But Nice, "I don't know if Nicole finished college" (via HuffPost). Meanwhile, we couldn't find any evidence that Polizzi completed her studies either. That said, she once expressed how much she missed training to work with animals in 2015, tweeting in part, "My favorite part had to be pre surgeries. Loved everything about anesthesia & endotracheal tubes."

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