What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice?
bokonist: 1)  Go to the best school where you can get a full ride.  Convince your parents to use the money they saved to fund your startup some day.  It's a far better use of money than college tuition.2)  Either major in a hard, useful, technical subject, like mechanical engineering or computer science, or find a super easy major where attendance in classes is mostly optional.  If you do the second, you can work full time on your startup during college, and get it to the point where you can live off of it by the time you graduate.