<p>@honorarymom: But the kids must hear about the colleges from some source in the first place, right? And I doubt it’s TV, because the Ivy league doesn’t get much airtime. Maybe we simply don’t talk about colleges much in our household…our own or others.</p>
<p>I could see kids growing up in an academic (parents are professors) household knowing about schools at a young age, but I am curious where other kids find out about these things.</p>