<p>@Furious:</p>
<p>Empirically, yeah, a disproportionate amount of the nation’s elite go to schools like Yale and Harvard. </p>
<p>At the same time, at a certain level of social strata, merit and nepotism (justified and otherwise) become very, very difficult to separate, let alone the chicken and egg problem of “did the candidate’s merit cause him to be selected by school X, or did school X make him what he is?”</p>
<p>However, saying “All A are the set of B” doesn’t justify saying “If someone is in set B, they are A”.</p>
<p>I’m sure not every single person in government went to Yale/Harvard, and I’m sure many that do go to Yale and Harvard don’t go into government.</p>