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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dh went to UVA. We have since lived in California, Texas, Indiana, and Georgia. No one outside of the immediate area gives UVA any more weight than U-anything else. [/quote]

[b]But George Mason --- now THERE'S a degree that carries a lot of wait in Indiana, the epicenter of the new economy.

Sorry had to do it.[/quote][/b]

But they are getting internships and jobs here on the exploding Tysons/Dulles corridor.  Both of my children have paid summer internships through GMU with big name tech companies this summer.[/quote]

So college choice should mean racing to a zero-name in order to obtain a computer internship in a suburb?  
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If you are in computer science, you will end up working in a suburb somewhere. Are you one of those city snobs? Or think the only valued positions to take are in law firms and government?

My husband has NO degree and retired at 35 a multimillionaire, due to his stellar technical skills. There are many, many ways to become successful. Hard work is key.[/quote]

I don't buy your story, no way is that realistic this day in age (retiring at 35 and multi-millionaire). [/quote]

I'm sorry you don't buy it, but it's true. He did not perform well in high school - almost dropped out. Mind you this was in the early 80s. He is learning disabled, and things were hard for him. However, math and computer science? He's truly gifted there. So instead of going to college, he pursued computer science on his own, got employed early and worked his way up. Took a job in a small computer firm that eventually went public. Some call it luck, and there was some luck involved, but most of it was his own hard work[/quote]

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