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Her sister, Muriel, was born two and a half years later. Due to Edwin's occupation as a legal representative for various railroads, the family moved frequently during Amelia's childhood, living at times in Kansas City, Des Moines, St. Paul, and Chicago. Earhart entered Ogontz School near Philadelphia in The following year, after visiting her sister Muriel in Toronto over Christmas, she decided not to return to Ogontz School and graduate, but instead to remain and join the war effort in Toronto.

While in Toronto, she began frequenting a local airfield, and soon became fascinated with flying. Following the Armistice in November , she returned to the United States and entered Columbia University as a pre-medical student in the fall of Earhart soon realized that the practical aspects of medicine did not appeal to her, and left Columbia in to join her parents in Los Angeles, in an effort to help keep their marriage intact.

In December , she took her first ride in an airplane with pilot Frank Hawks.

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In January , she began taking flying lessons from Anita "Neta" Snook. With help from her family, she took a job in a telephone company and bought her first airplane. In , she set her first aviation record with an unofficial women's altitude record of 14, feet under the auspices of the Aero Club of Southern California.