Jersey Shore personality Vinny Guadagnino may be best known to fans as the professor of fist-pumping, but now he may be aiming his triumphant arm-thrust toward a height beyond the disco ball: our very own Ivy League.

After Yalies recuperated from what was surely a night to “just go wild like let’s just blow it out of the water,” Vinny spoke of the school with Us Magazine at — where else? — Diddy’s son’s sweet sixteen.

The show’s comparatively mellow mama’s boy discussed what every Italian mother wants to hear— his law school ambitions. And indeed, Vinny has long established himself as a cut above, a more intellectual member of the house. As he explained in Episode 1:

“Guys with the blow-outs and the fake tans, and guys that wear lip-gloss and makeup, those aren’t guidos, those are retards.”

A discerning gentleman in the realm of fashion would do wonderfully at Yale! He said, too, of the LSAT:

“My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well [sic], then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard… But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.”

Vinny, 21, graduated in the SUNY New Paltz class of 2009, according to his Facebook page. In the interview this weekend, he said:

“I had a 3.9 GPA, Latin Honors, but I’m doing this right now. Law school is always on the back burner.”

Like so many of us who would rather fist-pump than gavel-pound, Vinny admitted:

“To tell you the truth, man, [being a] lawyer isn’t something I wanted to do. Nobody wants to be a lawyer — it’s hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.”

He said that if he had to be a lawyer, he would go for “business or corporate law”; however, it seems his personality is all the business he’ll need as he negotiates the terms of Jersey Shore‘s second season. Yet again, we are reminded of the value of an Ivy League education. Fist-pump to the lawyers of tomorrow!