"The British elite will judge you not only by your university but by your high school."
I've never seen people judging based on high school in the UK. Who, exactly, is doing this?
I've never seen people judging based on high school in the UK. Who, exactly, is doing this?
But other than that, no one really.
That exists here in America too. Harvard and Yale account for quite a lot of our top executive and judicial branch posts. Most famously, every one of the 9 members of the Supreme Court is either from Harvard Law School or Yale Law School. In their own way, Harvard and Yale are America's Eton - where future leaders go to hobnob with other future leaders.
I want to say the English equivalent of America's Ivy League universities like Harvard and Yale are its older private universities like Oxford and Cambridge, but the truth is the reverse (Oxford, for example, dates back to about the 9th century!)