College for me personally had little to do with academics and much more to do with the people I met once there. When I was leaving high school, I had little idea that this would be the case.
I think the bottom line is that it doesn't actually matter whether you go, it matters that you make a decision and follow through on it, and that you make a decision based on your life and not the desires of your parents, teachers, the Internet, or society at large. Yes, not going may shut off some opportunities and experiences that you could have, but there will be other opportunities and experiences that fill that void.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7733775
As a side note, I think Eric Schmidt handles most of the legal stuff, right? That probably didn't help.
It would be biased put in the context of "I'm deciding if I should skip college, is that the right decision?" and using those as your main data point to find your answer.
An exaggerated analogy to show what I mean about selection bias:
"Those who chose not to have sex before marriage, do you regret that decision?"