I don’t think these “leaders” are being “drawn” in the sense of an expressly intentional selection, it’s just how things end up going. As an example, a few yea

I don’t think these “leaders” are being “drawn” in the sense of an expressly intentional selection, it’s just how things end up going. As an example, a few years back, a study showed that law school graduates from about the top 20 or 30 schools took effectively all the top clerkships and large firm jobs. Among the bottom half - half! - of law schools it was close to zero with a few exceptions. It turned out many low ranked schools gave a full ride to a handful of top applicants, valedictorian material, who could be the exception. The school could then legitimately claim they had placed “students” in these competitive jobs. The expose depressed law school admissions for a decade. There was a major article in the Atlantic, should be easy enough to track down.