| 100% | UCLA | 4 | Alma mater for Carol Burnett and Jim Morrison: Abbr. |
| 49% | HOWARD | 6 | Alma mater for Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston |
| 49% | USC | 3 | Alma mater for Neil Armstrong and Pat Nixon: Abbr. |
| 49% | MIT | 3 | Alma mater for Buzz Aldrin and Kofi Annan: Abbr. |
| 49% | USC | 3 | Alma mater for Macy Gray and George Lucas: Abbr. |
| 41% | YALE | 4 | Alma mater for Bill and Hillary Clinton |
| 41% | UVA | 3 | Alma mater for RFK and Tina Fey |
| 40% | MIT | 3 | Alma mater for McDonnell and Douglas of McDonnell Douglas |
| 39% | YALE | 4 | Alma mater for Bush 41 and Bush 43 |
| 39% | BARNARD | 7 | Alma mater for Martha Stewart and Joan Rivers |
| 39% | UCLA | 4 | Alma mater for Sara Bareilles and Randy Newman |
| 39% | YALE | 4 | Alma mater for Sonia Sotomayor and Hillary Clinton |
| 39% | ETON | 4 | Alma mater for Aldous Huxley and George Orwell |
| 39% | ETON | 4 | Alma mater for Eddie Redmayne and Bear Grylls |
| 39% | YALE | 4 | Alma mater for George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush |
| 39% | OXFORD | 6 | Alma mater for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis |
| 39% | IOWA | 4 | Alma mater for Rita Dove and Cathy Park Hong |
| 39% | USMA | 4 | Alma mater of Grant and Lee: Abbr. |
| 39% | USNA | 4 | Alma mater for Adm. Richard Byrd: Abbr. |
| 38% | NYU | 3 | Alma mater for Spike Lee and Donald Glover, for short |
| 38% | NYU | 3 | Alma mater for Martin Scorsese and Lady Gaga, in brief |
| 38% | RPI | 3 | Alma mater for the engrs. of the Ferris Wheel and the Brooklyn Bridge |
| 38% | UCLA | 4 | College that Carol Burnett and Ben Stiller dropped out of: Abbr. |
| 37% | UCLA | 4 | Alma mater of the directors Charles Burnett and Julie Dash |
| 37% | MIT | 3 | Alma mater of NPR's Tom and Ray Magliozzi: Abbr. |
| 37% | UCLA | 4 | Alma mater of George Takei and Sean Astin: Abbr. |
| 37% | UCLA | 4 | Alma mater of Mayim Bialik and Ben Stiller: Abbr. |
| 37% | NYU | 3 | Alma mater of Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk: Abbr. |
| 35% | ONEG | 4 | Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and Elvis Presley's supergroup, for short? |
| 33% | ETON | 4 | Alma mater for David Cameron |