There's something about this title that struck you as odd, isn't there? When it comes to analogies, rock stars usually seem to pair better with nouns like AA and E! True Hollywood Story than with top colleges, but just because certain musicians have gone overboard with partying and destruction, doesn't mean they're all crazy. In fact, some rock stars aren't just talented at music: their creativity and ambition made them perfect candidates for an Ivy League education. If you're wishing for your online college experience to turn into something a little more glamorous, get the behind-the-music stories for these 10 rock stars.

1. Rivers Cuomo: Weezer's frontman had a pretty atypical upbringing, the least of which is his Harvard education. Cuomo was born in New York City but was raised on an ashrum in Connecticut. With his brother — named Leaves — River went to a private school on the ashrum after it moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains, but after graduating, he changed his name to Peter Kitts and moved back to Connecticut for high school. A gifted musician even as a teenager, Cuomo then moved with his band to LA, where he formed Weezer. Between bands, Cuomo still made education a priority: he attended Santa Monica College, the Berklee College of Music, and Harvard, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2006 after taking classes for nearly ten years.
2. Gram Parsons: Though he's not known as a hard rocker, singer and songwriter Gram Parsons is considered the creator of country rock. He belonged to bands like the Flying Burrito Brothers and The Byrds, and though he had a very short career (Parsons died of a drug overdose at 26, in 1973), he has won a few very prestigious posthumous awards from the music industry. Born in Florida, Parsons had a very tumultuous childhood before ending up at Harvard in the 1960s.
3. Greg Graffin: So you know that band Bad Religion? Its frontman, Greg Graffin is also a college professor. The SoCal punk band formed in the 1979, when Graffin was just a teenager, and though it broke up and got back together a few times over the next decades, Graffin continued with schooling, too. He double-majored and then got a Master's degree at UCLA before earning a Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell. Today, Graffin splits his time between upstate New York and UCLA, where he teaches science courses.
4. Sha Na Na: This nostalgic rock group loves reviving the 1950s, and after nearly five decades, some of the group's original members are still performing. Sha Na Na formed out of the a cappella group The Kingsmen, which had been a Columbia tradition for years. Humanities grad student George Leonard organized the Sha Na Na group, and quickly led them to perform at Woodstock the same year.
5. Alicia Keys: She's more of an R&B performer than a rock musician, but singer/songwriter/pianist Alicia Keys is still a superstar who is impressing the world with her powerful voice just as much as she did when she blasted onto the scene in 2001. Keys was raised in New York City's Hell's Kitchen by her mother. Demonstrating a talent for music and performing at a very, very young age, Keys — born Alicia Augello Cook — attended the Professional Performing Art School, where she practiced singing and songwriting. After graduating early, she enrolled at Columbia and simultaneously signed a recording contract at Columbia Records at 16 years old, but dropped out of college after only 4 weeks.
6. Vampire Weekend members: Indie rock band Vampire Weekend is still relatively new on the music scene. The group first formed when members Ezra Kroenig, Chris Tomson, Chris Baio and Rostam Batmanglij met at Columbia University. They were quickly signed by XL Recordings and were on an international tour just a couple of years later.
7. Tom Morello: Tom Morello might be our hardest rocker on the list. The guitarist has played for Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, and the Street Sweeper Social Club, and is well respected by musical critics and fans alike. The Harlem-born musician probably has his parents to thank for instilling in him an appreciation for education: his mother has a Master's degree from Loyola in Chicago, and his father — who eventually abandoned him — was at one time Kenya's first ambassador to the United Nations. Raised in Illinois, Morello went straight from high school to a political science major at Harvard, but he had to strip for a living when he moved to Hollywood after graduation.
8. Sean Lennon: As the only son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, you know you've got a lot of opportunity and a lot of chances to fail publicly. But Sean Lennon — who's a steady part of the jet-setting (but New York-based) hipster crowd — has done pretty well for himself. By 16, Lennon was already co-writing songs with Lenny Kravitz, and has since dabbled in film and art, but focuses on music. A graduate of some of New York City's best prep schools including Dalton, Lennon attended Columbia for three years before dropping out to pursue his music career.
9. Dave Longstreth: Experimental rock band the Dirty Projectors was created by Dave Longstreth, whose first album was released in 2002. With seven albums now released, the Dirty Projectors are still a more underground band which mostly sticks to its Brooklyn, NY, neighborhoods, despite having worked with internationally recognized artists like Bjork. Longstreth came up with the idea for the band when he was a freshman at Yale, from which he graduated in 2005. He was already recording albums before he graduated.
10. Duncan Sheik: Oh, my God, remember this guy?! We were excited to include the "Barely Breathing" singer on this list, and it turns out Sheik is a pretty serious intellectual. Taught to play the piano by his Juilliard-educated grandmother, Sheik attended the Phillips Academy boarding school in Andover, MA, before studying semiotics at Brown. After graduating, Sheik moved to San Francisco to work on his music.