[BookmarkSaver]

It's hard to scale up individual institutions and maintain quality.

What needs to happen is a broadening of the definition of "top schools".

The issue is that a "top school" is a definition inherently limited in size. The top 10 is the top 10 regardless of whether there are 100 or 1000 schools being considered. Also, regardless of how many people there are, as an entire society we can only agree on a group so large before the "top schools" are no longer actually common knowledge (and thus not a "top school" in many important ways).

[georgeecollins]

UCLA is both a much larger and much more highly rated school than it was thirty years ago.