I think you slightly misunderstood my point. I'm not talking about kids who are considering college, or even know about college. I'm talking about children who

I think you slightly misunderstood my point. I'm not talking about kids who are considering college, or even know about college. I'm talking about children who are in elementary school or even younger, before they can take care of themselves at all. Studies linked in the article show that availability of free preschool likely had a casual impact on high school graduation rates and college attendance at all. IMO improving those rates are more important than the tail-end of the distribution (MIT vs other colleges) as it would lead to markedly less inequality. Elite schools admit such a small number of students that I don't think educating kids about them would make much of an impact on aggregate (it obviously would for specific kids).