Comment by toyg

> 'Elites' seem to think that people who went to an elite college are many times smarter

You are overthinking it. Real elites, like everyone else, simply like what they know already; and they know those schools because they have been there, or know a lot of people who have been there, so they can evaluate the sort of challenges other pupils went through in a way that makes them more confident.

At its core, this is elitism in the oligarchic/aristocratic sense, not in the intellectual one.