Stars on graduation day " Entertainment Richard Corkery-Globe Photos, Inc., Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Barbie As another year of graduates look ahead with excitement to their unknown future, we wonder who among them may be our next generation of great actors, athletes, scholars, or even future presidents of the United States. Our friends at Snakkle.com spotted a few celeb grads back before their fame star took off, and you might be surprised at the humble (and remarkably awkward) graduation looks of some of today's biggest movers and shakers. Carrie split pic credit: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, D Dipasupil/Getty Images for The Elvis Duran Group Carrie Underwood, Salutatorian, Senior Year at Checotah High School in Checotah, Oklahoma (2001) Carrie Underwood's only been out of high school 11 years, but in that brief decade she won "American Idol" in 2005, released four albums, earned seven Grammy awards (amongst countless other awards), and also married hockey player Mike Fisher. Slow down, Carrie, and let the rest of us try to catch up. Check out which stars where cheerleaders back in high school. Luke Perry split pic credit: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Luke Perry, Graduation at Fredericktown High School in Fredericktown, Ohio (1984) Actor Luke Perry actually graduated from high school in 1984 and then struggled in Hollywood as an actor until he made it big by, ironically, going back to high school. Cast as Dylan McKay on "Beverly Hills, 90210" in 2000, Perry became a teen heartthrob at age 34. Since the heyday of the series, Perry's been working steadily in film and TV. See the entire gallery of stars, before the fame, in their cap and gown. Miranda split pic credit: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, Jason Merritt/Getty Images Miranda Lambert, Lindale High School Graduation in Lindale, Texas (2002) As a freshman at Lindale High School back in 1999, Miranda Lambert would catch the eye of the country music community just four short years later as a finalist on "Nashville Star." Now she's the new wife of fellow country music star Blake Shelton and the recent winner of the Academy of Country Music Female Vocalist of the Year. From geek to greatness: see the stars who sported braces in high school. Brooke Shields, Princeton University Graduation (1987) Brooke Shields started overachieving at the young age of 11 months, when she became the baby face of Ivory soap ads. From there, she's never looked back, becoming an internationally famous model and actress with a career that's still going strong. Attending Princeton University was actually one of the few periods where she just lived like the rest of us. Last year she went back to her alma mater to talk to the class of 2011, and Shields let them know back then: "My hair was huge. My Reeboks white. My jeans acid washed. You were not even born. Here's photographic proof of just how big her hair really was.