If the percentage of high school graduates going to college shortly after graduation dropped from the current 70 percent to the 50 percent who went from high school to college in the early 1960s, as many as 3.5 million additional young people could be contributing to the economy.
To take care of him, I dropped out of college to work a factory job that provides mental health insurance coverage.
Stephens, 30, dropped out of college to form The Geek Squad five years ago.
He dropped out of college to run a spring-break charter flight business.
He dropped out of college to apprentice with a book jacket designer.
When I dropped out of college to become a designer, an art director named Steve Snider took me under his wing and I became his apprentice.
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So in 2009, Ravindran and three classmates dropped out of college to focus on bridging this information gap through the development of a text message-based search engine.
The brand took off, and Michael dropped out of junior college to join the business in 1983.
After a year of college, he dropped out in 2000 to pursue his dream of becoming a professional musician.
The pair met at high school and hooked up again after Jobs dropped out of college and returned to California.
After graduating from high school, Purkayastha enrolled in Manhattan's Baruch College but dropped out during orientation week to focus fulltime on truffles.
In the early 1990s Gordon dropped out of college in Toronto to model for clothing catalogs, loving the pay but hating the process.
He dropped out of Amherst College to come to New York to be an actor and married playwright and screenwriter Jessica Goldberg, from whom he's now divorced.
L.A. Gear took off, and Michael dropped out of junior college to join Dad's business in 1983, after first working as a shoestore salesman to learn the business.
He got his start selling computer programs and cell phones while in school, but dropped out of college in order to have more time to focus on building his business.
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Taunton dropped out of college when he was 20 to play professional racquetball along with his twin brother.
Struggling all the way to college, the son eventually dropped out and in the early 1970s set up a small outfit making wooden furniture.
It is, for example, customary for the founders of big technology firms to have dropped out of college, or at least graduate school, before getting started.
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Recent data from the Economic Policy Institute show that the inflation-adjusted hourly wage of college-educated Americans aged 23 to 29 dropped about 4.7 percent from 2007 to 2011.
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He studied physics and English at the College of Charleston, but dropped out his junior year to sail to the Bahamas.
Before the war he had dropped out of college, but he went back to university and collected his bachelor's degree, did some post-graduate work and ended up running a mental health programme at Florida State University.
The young team, who previously were consultants on Facebook marketing, includes Chae and two former classmates at Babson College, who all dropped out after their sophomore years to move from Boston to California to start their company.
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During his first semester at Hendrix College, he started UnCollege, a website dedicated to providing resources for and ideas on how to get an education without college, and dropped out.
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Later in the song, he's back on his mother's couch, wondering what happened to all those friends who chose to go to college and were so disillusioned that they dropped out and vanished.
He went to college at the University of Miami, but dropped out.
He dropped out of college so he could "drop in" to classes that really interested him, such as calligraphy, whose lessons would come back to him years later when he designed the Mac, the first personal computer with beautiful fonts.
The hourly pay of young, female college graduates dropped 8.5% between 2000 and 2011, compared to 1.6% for men.
Tamerlan excelled in school but dropped out of Bunker Hill Community College because of money, according to the family's landlord, Joanna Herlihy.
When it comes to community colleges, we are setting up programs, including with Nassau Community College, to retrain workers, including young people who may have dropped out of school, but now are getting another chance -- training them for the jobs that exist right now.
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