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From that page: "Of the top 400 richest Americans in 2011, 27 graduated from high school but did not attend college. Another 36 were college dropouts." In othe
by CanSpice 13y ago
From that page: "Of the top 400 richest Americans in 2011, 27 graduated from high school but did not attend college. Another 36 were college dropouts."
In other words 84.25% of the top 400 richest Americans graduated from college. I'm not sure how that's an endorsement for dropping out of or skipping college.
- adventured 13y agoMost likely 84.25% of everybody earning more than $100,000 per year probably graduated from college. That simply jives with modern America post WW2, as a nation America manufactures college degrees. It's not about endorsing dropping out. It's about the fact that you can absolutely succeed without college. There is no one path, there is no "right" way. Go down that immense list of people for whom college was nearly or entirely meaningless: from Jobs to Carmack, from Rockefeller to Carnegie, from Gates to Wayne Huizenga, from Renault to William Hanna, from Sheldon Adelson to Richard Branson, and on it goes.
- mkramlich 13y agoAnd I'd bet money that of the 400 richest Americans who did go to college, a very large percentage came from a fairly silver spoon kind of background.
- randomdata 13y agoAccording to Gallop, the top 1% is comprised of: * 27% high school or less * 24% bachelors degree * 49% post-graduate degree When we talk about college in this context, we really should specify post-graduate college. Leaving people to believe that just having a degree is enough really skews reality.