I keep running into high school dropouts in Silicon Valley and I’m really mad that I never realized that was an option
Dropping out of MIT must be different than dropping out of BYU
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I dropped out because I couldn't afford tuition and got no finaid; I actually only paid for one semester but attended ~2 more years of classes. Left to do an overseas startup to get around US crypto laws as soon as I had funding.
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Didn’t realize you were still in Russia
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I'm not, it was trolling. (Someone was attacking another profile for having a Russian location, so some people Spartacused.)
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In the 1990s the very top schools were still decent, but I don't think I'd want to put a middle/upper class kid into the K-12+college system today. It is still a possible, if challenging, route for lucky motivated poor kids, those w/ bad parents/etc.
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I’d still be ok with Ivy League for sure
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I'd be concerned about political/cultural indoctrination, although not as much of an issue for some with a decent upbringing. (Not left/right, but anti-personal-agency, etc.)
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If I'd had the money, I probably would have done a more formal withdrawal around 1998-1999 during the height of dotcom boom, but likely returned in 2002 to finish undergrad degree.
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And getting into a US school -> US green card, etc. is still a great immigration route for people from China, India, etc. Either undergrad or grad school.
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Not having an undergrad degree is slightly annoying in immigration and because it largely precludes professional school in the US; I'd otherwise probably have done a security PhD or something in ~2008. But overall edu system is defective. I'd homeschool, etc. now.
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