We were 42 when eldest started college, 46 with our second (Both graduates at 17) and our youngest? We will be 62 if she doesn’t take any short-cuts. Truly, this is such an area and generational thing… it’s even dependent on what SCHOOL you are in. We were pretty average with our first two in our local district. Amongst our theatre friends and our middle son’s charter school parents? We were like 10 years younger even though our kids were the same age. It seriously just depends.