TEEN TALKS TO: Sophia Bush

TEEN: How would you describe your high school experience?
I went to an all-girls, very small, private school from 7th grade all the way to graduating high school. It's in Pasadena, California - the Westridge School for Girls, it's the most heavenly place on earth. I still go back and tour around the campus and it's really fun! It was so wonderful because the focus was the school. We had a brother school so of course we had guys to hang out with but during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a kid and do six hours of homework a night. On weekends we had a social life, we went to football games, we did that whole thing but it was such a great balance for us that it really gave my friends and I not only two solid legs to stand on being outspoken women, and not being afraid of speaking our minds to men or anybody, but we also had the time to really devote to our friendships. My girl friends are it! They are the best thing in my life! My family and my friends are top notch.

TEEN: What's happening with One Tree Hill and the CW? (the new network that merged the WB and UPN)
Well, you know they had to combine two networks worth of programming, so [the number of shows on each] was going to be cut in half. None of us knew what was going to go or what was going to get picked up. We were definitely an "on the bubble show" and I think with the support of our fans and our viewers and the heat that the show has generated publicity-wise pushed us into being one of the ones that got to stay on the air.

TEEN: Hooray for that! Look for OTH's season premiere this fall on the new CW network.