> having lots of decent, desirable universities instead of a few elite ones and many weak ones? it's not about the curriculum, it's about who you meet there an

> having lots of decent, desirable universities instead of a few elite ones and many weak ones? it's not about the curriculum, it's about who you meet there and what can you make of those connections. you can't avoid the elite to bunch up in few places, because they intimately know that the game is about whom you know and how you can leverage family ties well before the smart kid from middle class background learn that the world outside academia isn't a meritocracy. even if universities were all equally performant in teaching, people who managed to connect with the elite frequenting key places would still get a jump start in the life outside.