what college did edgar allan poe go to?
University of Virginia
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 Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the one @-@ year @-@ old University of Virginia in February 1826 to study ancient and modern languages . The university , in its infancy , was established on the ideals of its founder Thomas Jefferson . It had strict rules against gambling , horses , guns , tobacco , and alcohol , but these rules were generally ignored . Jefferson had enacted a system of student self @-@ government , allowing students to choose their own studies , make their own arrangements for boarding , and report all wrongdoing to the faculty . The unique system was still in chaos , and there was a high dropout rate . During his time there , Poe lost touch with Royster and also became estranged from his foster father over gambling debts . Poe claimed that Allan had not given him sufficient money to register for classes , purchase texts , and procure and furnish a dormitory . Allan did send additional money and clothes , but Poe 's debts increased . Poe gave up on the university after a year , not feeling welcome in Richmond , especially when he learned that his sweetheart Royster had married Alexander Shelton . He traveled to Boston in April 1827 , sustaining himself with odd jobs as a clerk and newspaper writer . At some point , he started using the pseudonym Henri Le Rennet . 

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 He decided to pursue a career in film . After attending two other film schools , he graduated from Full Sail University in another Central Florida town , Winter Park , as the class valedictorian . He moved to Southern California and began working as a story editor , primarily doing uncredited rewrites . 

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 Although he showed an early inclination toward science , he chose instead to study history . A scholarship enabled his entry into Fitzwilliam College , Cambridge , where he gained a first , a PhD and a fellowship . 

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 The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812 . John Allan alternately spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son . The family sailed to Britain in 1815 , and Poe attended the grammar school for a short period in Irvine , Scotland ( where John Allan was born ) before rejoining the family in London in 1816 . There he studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until summer 1817 . He was subsequently entered at the Reverend John Bransby 's Manor House School at Stoke Newington , then a suburb 4 miles ( 6 @.@ 4 km ) north of London . 

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 By July 1808 , Breckinridge had decided to return to Princeton in October to finish his studies . His roommate , James G. Birney , and the university president , Samuel Stanhope Smith , were both ardent abolitionists , and through their influence , he became convinced that slavery must be ended , but only by voluntary emancipation , not by government interference . He completed his bachelor 's degree in 1810 . 
