<p>Sorry, the second point in my previous post, about getting a job without ABET accreditation, was in response to the "Engineering science degree" at yale, which is, in fact, not ABET accredited.</p>
<p>skraylor, are you at Columbia? Didn't mean to denigrate my son's school. I am not sure which Yale programs are ABET but at places like google etc lack of ABET won't mean a thing. Mr. Gates has no ABET, I believe. Nor Mr. Jobs.</p>
<p>AshwinSundar, tamil brahmin myself. That said, you took probably the practice PSAT yesterday. I don't know what advanced sophomore means, most probably you are a sophomore. Relax and enjoy high school. HS is not prep for college and college is not prep for life. They need to be considered ends in themselves.</p>
<p>Ask yourself, if you could never go to college, which subjects would you study and why? If you could never get a job what would you study in college?</p>
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<p>(Disclaimer: it used to be that from yale eng you could either get a ba, bs, or bs with abet accreditation. apparently they took away the bs w/o acc and replaced it with the eng science. definitely a step in the right direction if you ask me.)</p>
<p>Now we run into a fuzzy area about what companies look for. It is safe to say that an ABET degree requires more than a non-ABET degree in terms of hard eng/science classes. Granted the person w/o acc. could very well choose to spend his/her time taking the extra classes, they may choose not to also. That's my basis for saying google/microsoft would not hire you without accreditation, the fact that they would be comparing you with another person of same grades/interview/etc except the other person had more eng classes. </p>
<p>your point about gates and jobs not having accreditation is irrelevant tho. being an entrepreneur and/or businessman is very different from creating a new search algorithm for translating languages.</p>
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<p>i'll agree with that</p>
<p>Sorry. "Advanced Sophomore" was the term my councellor used to describe me and it stuck to my head. haha</p>
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<p>Based on my 25 or so years, I get the feeling that HS is kind of prep for life -- much more so than college. All the cliquiness, the backstabbing, the competitiveness, etc. of high school arises again in the real world.</p>
<p>I believe gates developed programming himself with his fellow friends. He had entrepreneurial spirit, but that wasn't the reason for his success, it was because of his programming skills and his fellow colleagues coming up with windows and breaking from IBM. I read a biography of him.</p>
<p>As for accreditation, I haven't done so much research into ABET, but if you talk to employers, former workers they could give you advice . What exactly do you want do, or goal?</p>
<p>Also, people usually work in conjunction with designing new technologies for example.</p>