charliehall,
No one is born a Godol. What whatever godol did in his youth, prior to his becoming a godol, is not necessarily indicative of something unless he explicitly said it should be used as an example or is a good thing. Do you have any reliably cited quotes from any Chareidi Godol recommending college?
The point I get is what Rav Moshe explicitly wrote in Igros Moshe EH 2:1:
“My outlook is based only on knowledge of Torah whose ways are truth, without any influence of secular studies.”