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I wouldn't worry about it. Going to a "name" school is nice, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient to going on and having a great career. What's more important is what you do in life, rather than where you went to school. If you still want to do C.S. and work in the tech industry, you have a TON of choices. Go go a "lesser" school and get a C.S. degree. Or even go get a degree in something other than C.S. Or don't go to school at all, just find a job (I bet you will be able to, based on what you already know) and just teach yourself all the other stuff on the side (works well if you're a natural autodidact). Or consider a hybrid approach: get a job (full or part time) and take night classes for credit, possibly also inter-mingled with MOOCs that interest you. Don't worry about finishing a degree or meeting any certain deadline, just take the classes that interest you, learn useful skills, and build cool shit. If I had a suggestion for someone in your shoes, I'll throw this out there: If you do go to school, either full-time, part-time, seeking a degree or not, don't take just technology courses. Take a few classes in economics, finance, history, political science, etc. Even if you take those at a community college, or as Coursera courses or something. When I look back on my career, I definitely think I would have benefited from studying more of that stuff. If I had a second recommendation, it would be to take all the math and statistics courses you can handle. |