Smiling and dancing for the camera, Suri Cruise is all grown up and ready for college.
Now, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal, that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes‘s 18-year-old daughter has been accepted into Pittsburgh’s prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.
Clearly thrilled, Suri revealed her Tartan pride in a playful TikTok where she and her friends each wore their chosen college’s sweatshirt and revealed the name to the camera.
No nepo-baby networking for the incoming freshman as, according to sources, though her mother helped her with her applications, Suri, whose famous father has had no part in her upbringing, has always been determined to forge her own way.
Incoming freshman Suri Cruise showed off her Tartan pride in a TikTok video revealing her college of choice, Carnegie Mellon University
The 18-year-old daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, pictured with her mom in New York last month, is all grown up and will be flying the coop in the fall
She applied to a host of colleges with the artistic teen ‘leaning towards’ studying fashion.
Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design is one of the oldest and most highly ranked programs in the country.
Now, with her acceptance into its hallowed halls, a notably chic mother and a wardrobe said to be worth $5million, Suri is off to the best possible start if that is her chosen path.
One insider told DailyMail.com: ‘She is a smart girl, and she is turning into a very intelligent mature young woman. She has a very close group of loyal friends, and she knows exactly where she comes from.’
But though Holmes, 45, will surely be proud of her daughter’s stellar achievement sources say she is ‘overwhelmed’ at the thought of sending her little girl off to college.
Speaking recently, one told DailyMail.com: ‘Katie takes great pride in her but is also extremely overprotective.’
Sources tell DailyMail.com the stylish teen had applied to a host of colleges with the artistic teen ‘leaning towards’ studying fashion
Although she was born to two famous parents, Suri was largely raised by her actress mom after losing contact with Scientologist dad Tom Cruise (pictured in 2007) following their divorce
Carnegie Mellon School of Design in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has one of the oldest and most highly ranked programs in the country
Perhaps it’s little wonder given that, for the past 11 years, Holmes has effectively raised Suri solo.
Sixty-one-year-old Cruise’s only input to his daughter’s life has been financial and he hasn’t been seen with his daughter since 2013, after Holmes quit both the marriage and the Church of Scientology – the religion to which Cruise is so devoted.
According to their divorce settlement, Cruise agreed to pay Holmes $400,000 a year until Suri turned 18 and will continue to pay for her college fees as well.
Under the terms of their agreement, though he may be physically absent from his daughter’s life, he has and will continue to cover, ‘medical, dental, insurance, education, college and other extracurricular costs.’
But despite having little if any relationship with her dad, Suri is, according to sources, a happy and well-adjusted teen who has loved growing up in New York City.
Earlier this week she was seen out running in the city’s Central Park as she enjoyed an early morning workout in the June sunshine.
Later she switched workout gear for a simple white summer dress paired with brown boots as she headed out to dinner in Soho with her mother and grandmother, Kathleen Stomer-Holmes.
Katie Holmes was married to the Top Gun star and famous Scientologist from 2006 to 2012, when they divorced and she left the church
The actor’s close bond with his adult children is a far cry from the relationship he shares with his biological daughter, Suri, who turned 18 last month, and is reported to be estranged from her dad for well over a decade
Suri wore her hair loose while her mother, of whom she is the spitting image, wore hers in a long plait.
Like her daughter Holmes opted for a neutral summer dress and paired hers with black platform sandals and ankle socks.
Holmes and Cruise had reportedly been keen to co-parent when they initially divorced in 2012.
But Cruise’s religion proved a bar to any continued contact with his ex-wife and child, just as it did to his former spouse, Nicole Kidman.
The 56-year-old actress has had no relationship with the son and daughter that she and Cruise adopted since she left the Church of Scientology, and they remained in it.
Non-believers are deemed ‘suppressive’ by Scientologists and despite the Church’s official denials multiple former Scientologists speak of being forbidden from having any continued relationship with people who have left the Church, regardless of the nature of their relationship.