It is sometimes pointed out that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg were college dropouts.
In these rapidly evolving fields, the young male college dropouts who excel at social-media app-building have no advantage.
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Instead, they aspire to follow in the footsteps of famous college dropouts such as Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.
College dropouts are also among the most likely to default on their loans, falling behind at a rate four times that of graduates.
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Three others, including Ralph Lauren, are also college dropouts.
The reality is that since its inception the U.S. has been an open, free economy that let wealth, including vast wealth, flow to dreamers, geeks and college dropouts whose unpredictable success multiplied into greater wealth for others.
Fifty of these self-made tycoons are college or high school dropouts.
The report also doesn't account for dropouts or extra college years.
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Many of these workforce dropouts are recent college graduates.
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Thiel is in effect, also encouraging college or even high-school dropouts with the under-20 requirement.
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The poverty rate among high-school dropouts is 12 times the rate for college graduates.
Some 25% of men aged 25-54 with no college degree, 35% of high-school dropouts and almost 70% of black high-school dropouts are not working (see article).
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