HowlerKarma, you are right that the kids will have a much better sense of what they actually want by high school. One of the problem though is that it is hard to gauge the atmosphere of a particular campus unless you spent time there. Part of it is guilt on my part - I know how great these (at least mine) schools can be. I found so many people to whom I could relate and actually felt like I really belong in college.
I didn't have the faintest idea what I wanted in a college, or why I was going. I looked at it as "Grade 13".
As far as I could tell, I wasn't going to feel like I belonged in any of the colleges.
I was waaaaay to socially immature to deal with college.
And I will say that college made my immaturity worse and not better, since I was less socialized when I was finished. That really didn't help with law school.
Fortunately, it was free....
