<p>As another footnote, there are definitely people who could be in an academically elite school who, for some reason, are not. I’m not excluding them from the group disposed to acquiring tastes born of a collective intellectual/social consciousness, but like I said, they might find it harder to develop such tastes because they’re less exposed to the aforementioned norm. </p>
<p>One could also retain the tastes he/she acquired prior to entering an academically elite school, but their exposure to norms at the school would color how he/she sees and fashions that taste.</p>