As I promised here is the list of famous college drop outs.
Ben Aflec Carl Bernstein Eleanor Clift Jackie CooganJames Fenimore Cooper Claire Danes Michael DellHarrison Ford Bill Gates David Geffen William Randolph HearstJohn Hughes Don Imus Reggie Jackson Harry Truman Steve JobsRush Limbaugh Walter Cronkite Abraham Lincoln John MackeyRay Romano Theodore Roosevelt. Karl Rove Michael RubinWilliam Safire Frank Sinatra Will Smith Daniel Snyder Leo TolstoyTed Turner William McKinley Jesse “The Body” Ventura, DeWitt Wallace. George Washington John Wayne Kanye WestBruce Willis Anna Wintour Steve Wozniak F. Scott FitzgeraldRosie O’Donnel Ellen Degeneres H Wayne Huizenga Emile ZolaMark Zuckerberg Barry Goldwater Dustin Hoffman Jerry Yang Tom Hanks Warren Beatty Richard Gere Burt Reynolds John Jacob Astor Irving Berlin Chuck Berry Milton BradleyCharles Bronson Michael Keaton Brad Pitt Yoko OnoNina Totenberg James Cameron Sharon Stone Bill MurrayDan Akroyd Frank Lloyd Wright Tom Monaghan John Glenn Charles Lindbergh J. Paul Getty Robert Frost
And now for an added bonus, here are the billionaire dropouts.
Paul Allen Ray Kroc Henry Ford Andrew Carnegie Kirk Kerkovian Richard Branson Bill Gates Larry Ellison Steve Jobs Barry Diller J. Paul Getty Michael Dell Carl Ichan David H. Murdock Stephen Spielberg Theodore Waitt George Westinghouse Jerry Yang
Do you know Einstein’s story? Hmm… wikipedia… Aha. Seems he tried to skip finishing secondary school by applying to ETH Zurich and writing an entrance exam. They turned him down, so he finished schooling and got a university degree “like everyone else”. Bleh.