Bill Gates, Founder and Chairman, Microsoft Paul Allen, Founder and Chairman, Vulcan Group Truly awful examples. First, if these two are examples then the titl

Bill Gates, Founder and Chairman, Microsoft Paul Allen, Founder and Chairman, Vulcan Group Truly awful examples. First, if these two are examples then the title should not be "College optional" it should be "Degree optional." Gates and Allen both dropped out of Harvard without degrees, but that doesn't mean that they didn't gain the benefit of Harvard while they were there. Gates, for one, published a paper[1]. [1] http://66.102.1.104/scholar?q=cache:YiLhtZUyuZ4J:scholar.google.com/+author:%22Gates%22+intitle:%22Bounds+for+sorting+by+prefix+reversal%22+&hl=en http://66.102.1.104/scholar?q=cache:YiLhtZUyuZ4J:scholar.goo...