Things like this make me glad to have grown up in the UK. I went to Cambridge, which is (at least academically) as good a university as you can find, and it's a state school. You apply through the unified UCAS system and the fees - around £3000 a year now, I think - are the same as you'd pay at almost any UK university.
Sure, you get more private school kids and people from rich backgrounds, but it's not nearly as unbalanced as the scenario you paint.
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Things like this make me glad to have grown up in the UK. I went to Cambridge, which is (at least academically) as good a university as you can find, and it's a state school. You apply through the unified UCAS system and the fees - around £3000 a year now, I think - are the same as you'd pay at almost any UK university.
Sure, you get more private school kids and people from rich backgrounds, but it's not nearly as unbalanced as the scenario you paint.