All in the Family

But, of course, that didn't stop him. When his family was relocated to Massachusetts nine months later, Carey dove into his studies and graduated from high school as the class valedictorian and was voted by his classmates as the most likely to succeed. "When I came over to the U.S., the curriculum at the high school was below what I'd been at in England, so they decided to bump me from seventh to eighth grade. So I basically missed sixth and seventh grades, then graduated at 17 at the top of my class," said Carey.