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[mahyarm]

Or you can go to a normal college (like San Jose State), intern at apple or similar and make that six figure starting salary fairly quickly.

[rawnlq → mahyarm]

Yep, of course. Looking at SJSU's data http://www.sjsu.edu/careercenter/employers/salary-data/2014S... it seems like their average starting salary for CS is 85k which isn't far off.

EDIT: Since you mentioned internships, CMU also publish internship stats: http://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2014-sur...