Her experience best illustrates the phenomenon of
"visual capture".
In psychology, visual capture in the field
of psychology refers to a scene where the vision overpowers other senses in
forming a perception. In this procedure what happens is that the visual sense affects
the other parts of somatosensory system which ends up in a supposed
surroundings which is matching with the reality.
I believe the answer is: all three - age, class, and our place in history - because those are all ways in which society guides college attendance
In almost all societies, we have age requirement before we can fill out college application. Our palce in history is strongly correlated to the type of class that can enter college. In the past, only people with strong nobility background have the right to enter college, nowdays all classess of citizens have the right to enter college.