The people who spent a long time in university are actually better off than the self taught hacker types and this has mostly to do with the fact that so many people go through university without learning how to program.

University is not easy, so how did they skip the easy part? How did they get good enough grades everywhere else to pass?

Turns out: They must have done something that has nothing to do with programming but it is still computer science. What was it? What did they learn???