Meryl Streep had to wait three years before she received her first Oscar nomination after she graduated from the Yale School of Drama.
Lupita Nyong’o landed the role that would get her an Academy Award win for outstanding supporting actress even before she graduated in 2012, that of enslaved Patsey in this year’s Oscar nominated film “12 Years a Slave.”
http://articles.courant.com/2014-03-02/entertainment/hc-lupita-oscars-0302-20140302_1_lupita-nyong-patsey-yale-school
