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Maggie Gyllenhaal reveals her Ivy League diss

Maggie Gyllenhaal, known for smart roles, was turned down by Yale. “I wanted to go to Yale, but they didn’t accept me,” she says in Gotham’s June 28 issue. “Columbia didn’t accept me at first, either — they put me on the wait list. Once I was there, I realized I wouldn’t have finished college if I weren’t in the city.” Gyllenhaal, who plays a Secret Service agent in “White House Down,” got help with the role from a technical adviser “who set us straight. He would say, ‘No, that would never happen.’ ”