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Celebrity Alma Matters: This TV personality earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. In clinical psychology from the University of North Texas

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Dr. Phil

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Jimmy Carter said this ramblin’ wreck of a school was tougher academically than the Naval Academy

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Georgia Tech

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He entered William and Mary in 1760 at age 16

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Thomas Jefferson

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President’s Alma Matter: Herbert Hoover was in the class of 1895, this California school’s first

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Stanford

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He entered Harvard in 1751 at age 15

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John Adams

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President’s Alma Mater: He graduated from the University of Cincinnati Law School, where he was later dean

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William Howard Taft

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Ivy League Alma Maters: John F. Kennedy and brother Ted

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Harvard

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Arlen Specter, for his B.A. And Donald Trump for business school

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University of Pennsylvania

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Brad Pitt and Sheryl Crow were classmates at this school, Mizzou for short

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the University of Missouri

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Walter Cronkite was a Longhorn in the 1930’s studying poli sci at this college

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University of Texas

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google in their dorm room while working on Ph. D.s at this California college

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Stanford

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Presidential Alma Maters United States Military Academy (class of 1843)

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Ulyses S. Grant

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DEWEY: In 1883 Melvil Dewey took this job at Columbia College

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librarian

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ACTION FIGURES: In 2006 Leyan Lo, a student at this Pasadena school, solved a Rubik’s Cube puzzle in 11.13 seconds

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Caltech

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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: A college in Trenton, N.J. named for this inventor offers degrees based solely on knowledge

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Thomas Edison

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