College Conspiracy

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SAN FRANCISCO – Instead of paying attention in high school, Nick Cammarata preferred to read books on whatever interested him. He also has a gift for coding that got him into Carnegie Mellon University's esteemed computer science program despite his grades.

But the 18-year-old programmer won't be going to college this fall. Or maybe ever.

Cammarata is one of two dozen winners of a scholarship just awarded by San Francisco tech tycoon Peter Thiel that comes with a unique catch: The recipients are being paid not to go to college.

Instead, these teenagers and 20-year-olds are getting $100,000 each to chase their entrepreneurial dreams for the next two years.

"It seems like the perfect point in our lives to pursue this kind of project," says Cammarata of Newburyport, Mass., who along with 17-year-old David Merfield will be working on software to upend the standard approach to teaching in high school classrooms.

Merfield, the valedictorian of his Princeton, N.J., high school class, is turning down a chance to go to Princeton University to take the fellowship.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110529/ap_on_re_us/us_anti_college_scholarship

 

God bless him for having the balls to try something different.

 

Cha Ching!

 

college is still statistically more worthwhile than not going

it's like trying to hit the lottery instead of getting a degree...which one do you think is more unlikely

 

Whats sad is you probably have a better chance of being wealthy getting a 100,000 dollars worth of scratch offs than going to a less reputable college and getting a job

 

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lol

i made myself a promise that i would spend 2 bills a month on lottery tickets, in hopes that i would hit big on something like 250k/year for life or that 5k/month for life thing.

bjj setting me back@150 a month tho

being a cage fighter is my backup plan, lol

 

Here's an video of an economist from Ohio University that states why college has the financial burden that it has. Proposals can be made to reverse the increase of college tuition costs.

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Please don't flame me for posting against the views some of you all have here.

Also, here is Obama's counter-response to NIA, based on this September 2008 speech that he made.

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http://www.teenzeen.org/the-importance-of-a-college-education.html