My experience is this: Make friends at the top. You will have a much easier time getting through school if you send out some e-mails to the heads of places which you are considering to see how they respond to your questions.
The tangible benefits to having formal degrees (at least an undergrad) get smaller as the size of the company you are pursuing out of school gets smaller.
I went (and left) a very large university, it was hard to get things like this considered, and often they had attendance policies which said if you wern't IN class, you could fail..so getting the syllabus and taking the exam later just was not an option.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask about anything, it seems like I was in a similar situation a few years ago, I'd be happy to tell you about all of my experiences.
The tangible benefits to having formal degrees (at least an undergrad) get smaller as the size of the company you are pursuing out of school gets smaller.
I went (and left) a very large university, it was hard to get things like this considered, and often they had attendance policies which said if you wern't IN class, you could fail..so getting the syllabus and taking the exam later just was not an option.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask about anything, it seems like I was in a similar situation a few years ago, I'd be happy to tell you about all of my experiences.