&gt;  There are limited seats available at the highest-status universities, so admission to those schools will remain a privilege disproportionately available to wealthy parents who can pay to game the admissions process.<p>Funny, where I come from, going to a school that takes tuition means you&#x27;re too dumb to graduate from a &quot;real&quot; university. Most notably, most universities don&#x27;t accept for-profit faculties. This means that you can at most pay for a &quot;4 year degree&quot;, but not for a &quot;university degree&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s like that in all of, or even most, Europe. But it&#x27;s definitely like that in all the countries I&#x27;ve heard about from friends who live there.