Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are the famous college dropouts that I knew about. But apparently Steve Jobs went to Reed college for one semester and then dropped out.

比尔·盖茨、马克·扎克伯格从大学退学的有名事迹我知道，但是其实乔布斯在里德学院读了一个学期大学之后也退学了。

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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.

例如，大型IT公司的创始人在创业之前往往从大学或者至少在研究生阶段辍学。

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So what can you do to boost your chances of being hired if you have dropped out of college or have low grades?

那么，如果在你已经辍学或者得了较低的评分的情况下，怎样做才能增大被录用的机会呢？

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