[Lil' Lavery]

IMO, FRC has to be a High School age competition. It costs far less money to change majors or career paths in high school (and realising your DON'T want to be an engineer etc is every bit as important as realising you do) than once you've entered college.
FRC is expensive, but it has also survived as long as it has for a reason, people love it.
As a first hand participant in both the FVC and FRC competitions, I love them both, but I would never trade FRC for FVC. They are just too different.