I couldn't get past the ridiculous statement of your first sentence.
Here's Baldwin's education and some of his family history.
Turns out, one of his ancestors came here on the Mayflower.
He got his Bachelor degree from NYU.
Where did you go to school?
From his wiki page:
Alec and his siblings were raised as
Roman Catholics.
[15] They are of Irish, French, and English ancestry.
[16][17] Through his father, Baldwin is descended from
Mayflower passenger
John Howland, and through this line, is the 13th generation of his family born in North America and the 14th generation to live in North America.
[18]
Baldwin attended
Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa
[17] and played football there under Coach
Bob Reifsnyder. In New York City, Baldwin worked as a
busboy at the famed
discotheque,
Studio 54. From 1976 to 1979, he attended
George Washington University. In 1979, he lost the election for student body president and received a personal letter from former U.S. president
Richard Nixon (with whom he had a common friend) encouraging him to use the loss as a learning experience.
[19]
Afterward, he transferred to the
Tisch School of the Arts of
New York University (NYU) where he studied with, among others,
Geoffrey Horneand
Mira Rostova at the
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
[10] Later, he was accepted as a member of the
Actors Studio.
[20] In 1994, he completed his
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at NYU.
[21]