I wonder if it would be better to just have a system where there are some number of elite university places set aside at some very high price for the rich. Perh

I wonder if it would be better to just have a system where there are some number of elite university places set aside at some very high price for the rich. Perhaps the problem is the price would be too high / number of places too small that there would still be an incentive to try to get in through the ‘normal’ route. Plenty of top schools already set tuition prices based on family income. It should satisfy people who want elite universities to be places to rub shoulders with other elites. My hope is that such a policy would reduce the incentive to game the ordinary system by throwing money at it. But I guess the whole thing feels terribly unegalitarian and so couldn’t happen. Perhaps an easier improvement would be if enrolment could be massively (say >2x) increased at elite schools.