Kids are better prepared have taken an SAT and know what type of college student they are going to be by 11th grade. they might also have a clue on what they want to study. So they can pick a school that has what they want as opposed to kids flipping through the catalog after verbaling and saying geeze that major sounds good.

Parents are making the choices for 8th graders. 11th and 12th graders are making more of the choices themselves