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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2089884, member: 966"]
That isn't—at all—my point. And two examples don't prove much, when there are a lot of successful NBAers who didn't attend a single college class.

The point was to do with the characterization of this as being an issue with 'the underprivileged' making bad decisions. I'm just suggesting that if Google or Apple came to campus, to recruit coder/designer phenoms, and wanted Jill Suburbia because she exhibited the kind of potential they thought they could exploit, it wouldn't be such a ridiculous thing for that kid to jump early, to realize a childhood dream as early as possible. Especially if there were a ton of other coders/designers who had done the same thing. Heck, if Vogue had offered me a contract, I'da taken my talents to NYC rather than take three more years to finish a Psych degree i am still not using (except when dealing with knuckleheads on this board...).

The other thing, though, with athletes, is that they're only successful if they have a competitive drive, and an ego that allows them to believe they can succeed. None of those kids that go early think they're going to be washed-up early. As we are seeing every day, ego-slash-narcissism is a double-edged sword, but it can carry folks quite a ways.
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