In a recent interview with W magazine, Blake Lively, who plays Serena van der Woodsen on the hit television series Gossip Girl, revealed that a major motivating factor for accepting the role was Columbia University.

For the uninitiated, Columbia University masquerades as Yale periodically on Gossip Girl. And so, Lively spends plenty of time in and around the campus. However, as of today, she has not enrolled in any courses at Columbia, despite her insistence that she wants to.

W offers a possible explanation:

[Lively] claims, in fact, that the possibility of attending Columbia University one day a week was a motivating factor behind accepting the role on the show, which is shot in New York. So far, however, she hasn’t enrolled in any classes, and Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage maintain that, while the subject of college did come up during their initial conversations with Lively, the young actress also had less cerebral reasons for wanting to play the über glamorous Serena. “I think the real carrot for Blake was the opportunity for clothing,” Schwartz says, chuckling. “I remember talking to her about that. She was like, ‘Wait, so you’re asking me to move to New York and wear the most incredible clothes, some of which you might actually let me keep?’ So I think the wardrobe-reinvention carrot was stronger than the college-degree carrot.”

Question: Is Blake Lively even intelligent enough to attend Columbia?

Seriously, does she meet the stringent requirements of the Ivy League? Can she do anything other than act (poorly)?

Sure, she can get in with lavish donations, but that’s the last thing Columbia needs – another know-nothing celebrity on campus.