Learn on your own!
Don't bother with college unless you need that "paper" because they will make you a "well rounded person" meaning they will waste your time teaching you things you will never use.
Figure out where you are going and head there. You get ahead of everyone else because they still don't know what they want to do, even into their 70's.
Most of the great inventors never made it past 8th grade or WORSE!
So start programming everything, get Linux now and start compiling like a mad man, spend all your spare time with girls, no wait, I mean jpg's of girls and learn everything you can about networking because there are few people who know anything about programming in C and networks and hardware all together.
Learn electronics every way you can, go read at the library and make some projects yourself. Lots of stuff on the net, all the docs and more on everything.
Do not let anyone hold you back, if you can't afford it, make it.
Some people need to be forced to learn, with a lesson plan, others that succeed big in life learn quickly and on their own and motivate themselves.
You can pick up most stuff in a day or two if you are good at staying away from TV and beer.

Oh, and don't accept those $3 a hour jobs people will try to throw at you, go for some big bucks and do those things that people seem to think is hard to do (even if it's easy for you).