Before she had the nerve to tell her family that she wanted to pursue an acting career, Billie Lourd went off to college. She initially went to Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, for a semester, desiring a "traditional college vibe." But, thanks to her unconventional childhood, she found the environment stifling. She told Town & Country, "... People would do normal college things." Lourd continued, telling the publication, "After having the childhood that I did, it was like going backward 10 years. I was driving to New York every weekend anyway, so I ended up transferring."
Lourd transferred to New York University (NYU), where she designed her own major: "Art and Business as Religion." Lourd explained, "I wasn't raised religious at all, but they allowed me to, like, dip into each religion. One weekend I wanted to be Buddhist, so Mom brought me to a temple and showed me the Siddhartha movie. And then I wanted to be Jewish, we went to shabbat, we went to bat mitzvahs."
