I don’t think there’s a country in the world where the upper middle class and up don’t have an advantage when it comes to higher education. My daughter says the “posh Brits” at St. Andrews tend to stick to themselves and be clustered in certain majors. Chemistry, physics and math, where she is making a home for herself is not where they congregate. She said that Scottish students sometimes assume all the American kids are rich and some were surprised she is expected to pay all her own expenses after tuition room and board. She set them straight while they were planning their fall break on a budget. Busses and hostels and cheap meals. She is on a strict budget to make her summer job money last all year.