Kate Bosworth wants to go back to school.The 25-year-old actress was offered a place at America’s prestigious Princeton University as a teenager and despite the college eventually revoking the offer after she deferred too many times, the “Superman Returns” star says she hasn’t ruled out furthering her education in the future.

She said: “I don’t think that door is closed for me. My mom went back to school when she was 40, so I had an untraditional upbringing in that way.”

Despite appearing in “The Horse Whisperer” at the age of 14, Kate says she decided not to pursue a Hollywood career immediately afterwards because she didn’t want to have to admit to her children she hadn’t been to her school prom.

She added: “I didn’t head that way because I just had this vision of my kids one day saying, ‘What was your prom like?’”

“I didn’t want to look at them and say ‘I don’t know. I was on a film.’”

SYDNEY is many things to many people, but it makes actress Kate Bosworth feel so “normal” she is poised to make the Harbour city her second home.

The Hollywood star was in Sydney last month to play bridesmaid for her best friend and former assistant Jacqui Louez.

But she has revealed she loves the city so much she will return this month for a magazine fashion shoot and to relax on the beach.

“I just love Sydney. I really do think of it as a second home, even though it’s so far away,” Bosworth, 25, told The Daily Telegraph.

“I think maybe that’s why I love it so much: it’s so far away that it just feels like you step back into some sort of normality.

“I really can’t describe it, but I immediately felt at home. I suppose it was a time in my life that was one of my happiest (on her first visit in 2005).

“It was that kind of magic-bubble moment of stepping into adulthood where everything seems so possible and exciting.”

Bosworth said that when she was last in Sydney, people may have recognised her from films such as the surf flick Blue Crush or Superman Returns, in which she played Lois Lane, but no fuss was made.

“I just feel immediately at home when I’m in Australia. I love the casualness of it and people not taking things too seriously.

“I think that’s what I loved most: people don’t care who you are. They’re just too down-to-earth to be impressed by an actor.”

The actress, who filmed ‘21′ in the desert city, missed the sight of countryside and struggled with the “debauched” Vegas lifestyle.

Kate said: “Everyone I know describes Las Vegas as the adult Disneyland, which I can kind of understand although I think it’s a bit more debauched than that! To be honest with you, it’s not really my cup of tea.

“Being there for six weeks was a long time, I was surrounded by great people and had fun but at the end we all felt like we had been living in a big parking lot. We were all really happy to get out of there. You know – you miss trees! It makes you go a little crazy after a while.”

The ‘Superman Returns’ star also revealed she enjoyed gambling while she was in the city, but was cautious about losing too much money.

Kate added to Total Film magazine: “We gambled and drank and worked and played. It was great. I won overall but I am a very safe gambler. I’m one of those people who makes $20 and goes, ‘OK, I’m going to leave for the night,’ and the next night I make $40 and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ I think I was up about $200.”