[richcollins]

Try getting a job at Microsoft, Facebook, or Apple if you don’t have a degree. There is almost no chance that you will make it past HR.

Bullshit. There are plenty of people at those companies that never got a degree but proved themselves in other ways (open source, made popular apps ... etc).

[byrneseyeview]

Indeed. If your career-seeking paradigm involves going through HR, of course you're going to want to go to college. If your career goal is as much success as possible, even when you accept higher variance, college looks like a worse deal.