I agree. Getting a degree is not the issue. I don’t really know anything about the superstars mentioned above. I don’t know if they were profoundly gifted kids who simply didn’t need a college education because they so quickly outpaced it. If that is the case, they are actually counter examples. We are not talking about the profoundly gifted kid who divine the basics of calculus in 4th grade. We are talking about the hard working kid who is taking her classes in sequence and getting A’s through effort and perseverance.