First of all, let me say (tangentially) that I disagree with the notion of skipping college/university, a view that is so popular on HN and other tech circles n

First of all, let me say (tangentially) that I disagree with the notion of skipping college/university, a view that is so popular on HN and other tech circles nowadays. College was one of the best times of my life; I feel like I learned a lot of actual useful knowledge (computer science major), and I made long lasting friendships; 20 years later some of my best friends now still are people I met in college (including my significant other). It wasn't even like I was a popular person in school or anything. I was just an ordinary person. Having said that, I actually do agree the value of high school is little. Given my pretext above though, here's the problem. I don't know how one would enter college without high school. High school is very much college prep. It sucks both in terms of classes and social life. Most people I know didn't like high school. Perhaps that speaks to who I am and who my friends are (i.e. none of us were popular kids in high school). The author here suggests GED is equivalent to finishing high school which I'm sure it technically is, but college admissions care about high school GPA and SAT scores. I didn't even go to Ivy League or anything but I did go to a University of California which is good in the grand scheme of things but not the top; and I can't imagine getting into one of these without good high school GPA and SAT. Ivy League admission is probably a whole other level of ball game. Maybe then the next argument point is how we fix college admissions, because I don't think getting rid of college entirely and doing bootcamps only is the way to go.