I'm a senior in high school and am deciding between attending UT Austin for CompSci or skipping that and moving to San Francisco to work at a startup.
I have about 3-4 years experience in web development, and 1-2 years Android development. I have worked at four tech companies. I'm currently paid 31k as a front-end web developer at medium sized company while being the lead Android developer for an established startup on the side.
I have a pretty well fleshed out github account and a long list of completed side projects.
I don't particularly enjoy school nor debt, and I'm not convinced a Computer Science degree would be fully utilized in a career in web and android development.
Will startups take a fresh high school grad seriously?
Is it a mistake to not go to college despite my experience?
What would you do?
EDIT:
Thanks for the advice, everyone. I really appreciate it.
A few follow up questions:
With my qualifications, how likely is it that I could land an internship in San Francisco this coming summer?
I'm currently learning many new (to me) technologies, ramping up my open source activity, and writing a blog. Is there anything else I should to do increase my chances?
I have about 3-4 years experience in web development, and 1-2 years Android development. I have worked at four tech companies. I'm currently paid 31k as a front-end web developer at medium sized company while being the lead Android developer for an established startup on the side.
I have a pretty well fleshed out github account and a long list of completed side projects.
I don't particularly enjoy school nor debt, and I'm not convinced a Computer Science degree would be fully utilized in a career in web and android development.
Will startups take a fresh high school grad seriously? Is it a mistake to not go to college despite my experience?
What would you do?
EDIT:
Thanks for the advice, everyone. I really appreciate it.
A few follow up questions:
With my qualifications, how likely is it that I could land an internship in San Francisco this coming summer?
I'm currently learning many new (to me) technologies, ramping up my open source activity, and writing a blog. Is there anything else I should to do increase my chances?