Yeah, but it's her management who plants it in the magazine/press. The Elle Style Icon award? That's negotiated by a publicist. See Blake Lively's inclusion on Time's 100 Most Influential or J.Lo's Sexiest Woman Alive title.
Plus, she only ever talks about fashion and school in interviews. All her high profile non-HP projects were fashion-related (Burberry, People Tree, Alberta Ferretti). Her management developed her image to be 'the fashionable smart girl' with the projects they chose and the topics they publicize.
Meanwhile you've got Dakota Fanning, who also wears pretty clothes, attends NYU (this fall), appeared in a Marc Jacobs ad... yet this is not what her team chooses to emphasize so in the media (and to the public), she's just an actress.